http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/21/business/dealbook/5-big-banks-to-pay-billions-and-plead-guilty-in-currency-and-interest-rate-cases.html?_r=1
And yet young kids are getting thrown in jail for selling an ounce of pot.
"On Wednesday, four large global banks — Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase, Barclays and Royal Bank of Scotland — pleaded guilty to a series of federal crimes over a scheme to manipulate the value of the world’s currencies. The Justice Department accused the banks of collusion in one of the largest and yet least regulated markets, noting that at one bank one trader remarked 'the less competition the better.' 'If you aint cheating, you aint trying,' one trader at Barclays wrote in an online chat room where prosecutors say the price-fixing scheme was hatched."
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