Comments on: HSBC paying $2 billion to avoid criminal charges in drug cartel laundering case https://insidecostarica.com/2014/01/22/hsbc-paying-2-billion-avoid-criminal-charges-drug-cartel-laundering-case/ Costa Rica's Leading English Language News Source Tue, 28 Oct 2025 04:55:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.2 By: McDemonhttps://insidecostarica.com/2014/01/22/hsbc-paying-2-billion-avoid-criminal-charges-drug-cartel-laundering-case/#comment-6724 McDemon Wed, 22 Jan 2014 17:58:00 +0000 http://insidecostarica.com/?p=12998#comment-6724 Nothing like being able to buy your way out of a criminal rap. What a crock of shit! These fuckers need to be strung from a lamp post. This is how you “fix” the systemic problems in the banking system. You cheat, lie, steal, commit fraud destroy peoples lives with your malfeasance you should die..Period..

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia-pacific/2013/11/vietnam-banker-sentenced-death-fraud-2013111662741522258.html

If what was just done in Vietnam were practiced in the US, the financial collapse never would have happened and would certainly never happen again. As a society, we need to grow a set of balls and hold these grifters to account.

]]> By: Ken Morrishttps://insidecostarica.com/2014/01/22/hsbc-paying-2-billion-avoid-criminal-charges-drug-cartel-laundering-case/#comment-6723 Ken Morris Wed, 22 Jan 2014 17:48:00 +0000 http://insidecostarica.com/?p=12998#comment-6723 Let’s cut to the chase: (1) a bank guilty of massive money laundering gets off after paying $2 billion, money that comes from its customers; (2) the bank proceeds to spend more of its customers’ money to hire a bunch of overpaid anti-money laundering experts, even though sources say that the systemic problems have not been corrected; and (3) the bank cuts off loans to small businesses like corner stores in the name of reforms. At each step the little guy gets hurt while the bank prevails. Isn’t global finance great?

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