Approaching federal investigators in the United States of criminal charges related to financial transactions offense against the largest banks in the world, according to lawyers locanto familiar with in this regard, a development that could lead to the first plea of a major bank since more than two decades.
If investigators obtained this recognition, they will destroy the common belief among dealers in the global markets and the public that some of the large financial institutions on Wall Street have grown to the point of extreme importance for the national economy and the American global It is not possible to prosecute locanto them.
In an attempt to address those concerns, locanto met with prosecutors in New York and Washington with the organizers of financial transactions, to look at how to punish the banks of a criminal without being subjected to the risk of bankruptcy and without damaging the national economy. This is shown by interviews with lawyers conducted by the New York Times and also through the records and documents that I have seen.
This strategy supports the new approach, which seeks to get a plea in two of the most important investigations. The first against Credit Suisse to facilitate the process of tax evasion for U.S. citizens, and the other: against the largest bank in France, BNP, for his doing business with intensive countries such as Sudan, which the United States placed on the black list. This approach also works in order to bring charges against other U.S. banks have suspicious transactions, but those investigations are still at an early stage.
According to the lawyers, investigators During negotiations with a group of BNP, which has a huge investment bank in New York, has been preparing for the plans and the mechanism to extract a guilty plea of criminal parent company of the Bank. The bank is bent by seeking to obtain financial penalty paid in settlement to stop the prosecution. In the case of the inability of the group BNP get a lighter penalty Bank has recruited high-ranking French officials to put pressure on prosecutors.
If this thing the prosecutors could face a wave of criticism in Congress, locanto such as those that emerged after that could BOE Watts HSBC escape from similar charges two years ago when paying British bank the amount of 1.92 billion dollars in settlement of Abagaf prosecuted on charges locanto of money laundering.
Such criminal cases rely on the cooperation of the organizers of the banking business. Some of these regulators warned that the imposition of charges for bank HSBC may lead to the cancellation of the Charter locanto of the Bank, which is equivalent to the bank's exposure to the death penalty. Federal regulations require that public prosecutors weigh the economic consequences that come as a result of the companies accused of financial giant.
Regarding BNP Frenchman has said lawyers familiar locanto with the case said investigators met in April with the organizers of the Bank of American Government, and with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and Benjamin with a large whiskey organizers of financial services for the city of New York. Among the persons who attended the meeting locanto and left as they are reassured by far, Brett Brara the U.S. attorney in Manhattan, locanto and David O'Neill, head of the criminal division at the Justice Department in Washington and Cyrus Vance Jr., the Manhattan district attorney.
During the meeting at the Fed's headquarters in New York, the lawyers said that Mr. whiskey planned to impose severe penalties against the BNP and its staff, but would not cancel the license of the Bank. He said lawyers and prosecutors, and they put similar guarantees from the Federal Reserve in New York, despite the fact that the Federal Reserve Board in Washington must agree on a decision about the BNP, which was not accused locanto of any wrongdoing.
Distributed U.S. and European banks among the various government departments in New York and Washington, and Aatmadaaly banking regulator entrusted with the organization of these procedures, the banks charge is still difficult. locanto Apparently, the organizers agreed with prosecutors, and even some of them feel that they are obliged to bring criminal charges in line with the law.
According to the records locanto of lawyers it in a meeting last September, pledged Kperalmnzemin financial federal non-intervention if there is Mr. Brara on the plea of JPMorgan Chase regarding its relations with Bernard Madoff locanto (Bernard locanto Madoff, the owner of the largest financial fraud in U.S. history).
During the discussions, locanto it was addressed to interviews locanto with lawyers and records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, stating many of the legal maneuvering by the prosecution team, the year when the investigation into transactions locanto major banks, which demonstrate pressure defense lawyers to force the prosecution team the year not to proceed forward in the case without providing guarantees that the organizers will not present their bank into bankruptcy.
Speaking in the last of a group of lawyers in the Wall Street said Mr. Brara "This organization not to create a loophole exploited by widening the responsibility of banks midwife to blame!" He pointed out that regulators locanto often have many of the same facts, locanto such as e-mails and documents that support a criminal case, so prosecutors and regulators need to "work in harmony."
Mr. Brara remarks echoed the same concerns expressed by Attorney General Eric Holder at a congressional hearing last year, when he said: "I'm worried that the size of some of these institutions has become so great that it has become difficult for us to prosecute," amid fears of regulatory may be offered the national economy at risk.
These statements sparked impromptu debate, which was heard in the Justice Department and the halls of the Capitol building and reinforced worries locanto Mr. Holder also traded this idea, which says that Wall Street too big to fail and is now too big to be charged.
This approach has helped in the formation of laundering case only
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