If they don't want the risk of the loans on their books, maybe they should just securitize it and sell it to their Muppet clients.
More troubling to me is how ass-backwards this whole system is. The oldest profession is too risky, but some upstart idea to securitize bad debt gets a AAA rating? It is a sad state of affairs when selling fraudulent securities is viewed as more respectable than catering to men's sexual needs. Folks have been paying good money for pussy since the dawn of time and will continue to do so.
I get it that JPM does not want to incur the consequences of a conspiracy or aiding/abetting charge, but it should never have come to pass that there is a black market for pussy and an open market for fraudulent securities. And in light of all the bad MBS, too big to fail, and other issues visited upon us by unethical banking, I find myself unable to muster much sympathy for JPM's selective compliance efforts.
Originally Posted by Karl Hungus
Your so-called "fraudulent securities" were rated by S&P and Moodys, not the banks. They were sold to other large sophisticated institutional investors along with prospectuses that contained full details including all the risks. The MBS prospectuses included tables showing the FICO (credit) scores, LTV and debt ratios of the underlying mortgages. (Some investors used this information to profit by shorting the securities.) This wasn't fraud - it was laziness, stupidity, greed (yield-chasing) and lack of due diligence by the investors who bought the stuff.
If you want an example of REAL FRAUD, look at Bernie Madoff. One of the other posts in this thread has a link to the DOJ lawsuit against Bernie. Oh wait, the lawsuit isn't against Bernie Madoff, is it? Well I'll be a monkey's uncle! It's not against him, it's against his bank! Looks like JPM was unlucky enough to let Bernie the fraudster open an account with them. Now the feds are suing JPM for not telling the world Bernie was a fraudster, even though the SEC couldn't figure it out either despite full access to the fraudster's books...
And after all this trumped-up hypocritical bullshit and harassment by the feds, you ask why JPM-Chase would turn away a porn star's account? Seriously? Are you that dense?
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