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blackangst1 said:
Wow. Too big to prosecute.
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Kind of crazy, if you think about it - before you had to be the Roman Empire or Hitler to take over the world and destabilize things; now you can just do it electronically. Some of the sources are pretty wild, too:

Despite repeated urgings from federal officials to strengthen protections in its vast Mexican business, HSBC instead viewed the country from 2000 to 2009 as low-risk for money laundering, the Senate report found. Even after HSBC’s Mexican operation transferred more than $7 billion to the United States — a volume that law enforcement officials said had to be “illegal drug proceeds” — lax controls remained.
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This is like refusing to pull an arrow out of someone's gut because the wound will bleed. Everyone knows it, but for some reason this is still going through.
 
For anyone keeping score - this is only the tip of the iceberg for HSBC. There's a reason they've become one of the worlds BIGGEST banks - because they don't give a shit about rules.
 
I for one welcome our new corporate overlords.

Really, when we decide that certain corporations are above the law we have really formed an elite aristocracy.
 
Damn, that's crazy.

They actually closed all of their branches in upstate NY last year. I never moved my account, so now I have to go back down to Queens where I opened it do anything with my account that can't be done online.
 
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