Who is going to jail for the economic collapse?
Federal authorities are looking into the demise of Washington Mutual, the largest bank failure in U.S. history. Meanwhile, New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo is investigating what he calls “unwarranted and outrageous” spending by American International Group. U.S. banks likely to hold tight to bailout money Observers point to the growing well of bank losses as reason to question whether U.S. government funding will be used as a financial Band-Aid, instead of an engine to move forward. Legal legacy of Pinochet’s UK arrest Ten years ago, on 16 October, UK police officers marched into a London clinic and arrested Chile’s former military leader Augusto Pinochet as he lay convalescing from surgery. His dramatic detention sent shockwaves around the world, producing both euphoria and condemnation. It is still reverberating today. Lawyers at Human Rights Watch and at the US-based International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ) say it contributed to the establishment in 2002 of the Int
