Meet Wall Street's scapegoat, the one person to get jail time for the most massive mortgage fraud in history.
You remember Lynndie England. She was the Army Reserve soldier
photographed at the Abu Ghraib prison giving the thumbs-up sign in front
of a set of naked detainees. A lower-level reservist, she was among the
few at Abu Ghraib who actually served prison time.
No officers
who authorized and directed the torture and detainee abuse, either in
that prison, at Guantanamo Bay or anywhere around the world, ever faced
trial. But Lynndie England became a symbol for the sorry state of the
rule of law in America, where a few small “bad apples” get held to
account, and the higher-ups who devised and directed the criminal
activity get off scot-free.
There’s a Lynndie England for the financial crisis, too.
Meet
Lorraine O. Brown, an individual singled out for actual jail time for
her role in the massive mortgage document fraud that plagued this
nation. Like England, she stands alone among the multitudes of
fraudsters, including those at the highest reaches of the financial
industry.
For the rest of the story: http://www.salon.com/2013/02/24/shes_paying_for_wall_streets_sins/
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