SEC Commissioner Furious At Deutsche Bank’s “Decade Of Lying, Cheating, And Stealing”

Tuesday, May 5, 2015
By Paul Martin

by Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge.com
05/05/2015

Last week we commented on the latest travesty in the legal system when Deutsche Bank paid $2.5 billion to settle charges that it had manipulated LIBOR, EURIBOR and various other -BORs. As usual in situations such as this one, not a single banker went to prison, but there was some hope that Deutsche Bank’s gross criminal conduct would at least land it on the SEC’s “bad actors” list, which is like the Dodd-Frank equivalent of ‘time out’ and restricts the offender from participating in exempt securities offerings.

Not to worry: as we reported as part of its settlement, Deutsche Bank, as well as every other criminal financial institution, had – deep in the fine print – inserted language that exempted the offender from such stigma. As the WSJ noted, “the language allows the banks to avoid asking the SEC for a waiver—a process that has become fraught with uncertainty amid commissioner disagreements over whether to allow financial firms to avoid a “bad actor” ban…”

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