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60 Minutes Raises the Question: Are Dirty Lawyers Running the U.S.

Courtesy of Pam Martens.

60 Minutes Airs a Hidden Camera Video Showing a New York City Lawyer Explaining How Lawyers Run the County and Make Laws Preventing Them From Going to Jail

60 Minutes Airs a Hidden Camera Video Showing a New York City Lawyer Explaining How Lawyers Run the County and Make Laws Preventing Them From Going to Jail

Wall Street, based in New York City, collapsed the U.S. financial system under the weight of its own corruption in 2008. We’ve just come off another year of unprecedented corruption on Wall Street, topped off with two major U.S. banks, Citigroup and JPMorgan Chase, pleading guilty to felony counts for rigging foreign currency trading. Elsewhere in the state of New York, the heads of both legislative branches, Dean Skelos, the Senate Majority Leader, and Sheldon Silver, Speaker of the Assembly, were convicted on corruption charges in the waning days of 2015.  Last evening, the CBS investigative news program, 60 Minutes, produced video evidence that 15 out of 16 lawyers in New York City were willing to discuss strategies with a potential client for laundering dirty money into the U.S. financial system through shell companies.

In short, New York State is facing an epidemic of corruption and it’s long past the time to bring in a Justice Department Taskforce to clean up the mess.

In 2013, we warned in an article at CounterPunch that New York was drowning in corruption; that both lawyers and judges were fixing court cases. Five years earlier, reporter Wayne Barrett wrote the following in the pages of The Village Voice, following an in-depth investigation:

“It wasn’t just that a case could be fixed. The darker secret was that the bench itself had been bought, that its polyester black robes were on a perpetual special-sale rack, that smarmy party bosses, ensconced at 16 Court Street across from the supreme court they ruled, demanded cash tribute to ‘make’ a judge. The district attorney, Joe Hynes, who first heard the rumor 36 years ago when he was a young prosecutor running the office’s rackets bureau, said in 2003 that he’d have to be ‘naive to think it didn’t happen,’ that it was ‘common street talk that this has been going on for eons.’”

Just last February, the New York Times published its investigative findings on a foreign dirty money epidemic in New York City. The article looked at the luxury condos of the Time Warner Center and opened with these two revealing paragraphs:

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