[benhirashima]

"There are relatively effective checks on large scale corruption through independent layers of law enforcement agencies and a separate judicial system."

...unless you have money. then you're untouchable. i.e. the financial industry.

[pc86]

I know you think you're being smart, or cute, or whatever, but this is completely off topic and irrelevant to the conversation at hand.

[tokenadult]

There have been prosecutions of financial industry wrongdoers in the United States recently, with some convictions. I personally think that more prosecutions are warranted, but prosecutions of complicated criminal schemes take time.