Former Attorney General Eric Holder essentially institutionalized the back room. A bunch of bankers got together with a bunch of Justice Department officials, money changed hands, and that was it. All of their criminal problems went away.
As 2014 comes to an end, we look back at the 20 most popular Democracy Now! interview of the year. Click here to watch these interviews. Thank you for tuning in to Democracy Now! in 2014. Happy New Year!
What was your favorite Democracy Now! interview this year? We’re looking back at our 20 most popular segments of 2014. Check out these interviews, which rank from #11 to #20 in our list. Stay tuned as we continue our countdown through December 31st.
#11 Glenn Greenwald: Why Did NBC Pull Key Reporter After He Witnessed Israeli Killing of Gaza Kids? (Watch)
#12 Venezuelan Protests: Another Attempt by US-Backed Right-Wing Groups to Oust Elected Government (Watch)
#13 Are Any Plastics Safe? Industry Tries to Hide Scary New Evidence on BPA-Free Bottles, Containers (Watch)
#14 Bank Whistleblower and Matt Taibbi on How JPMorgan Chase Helped Wreck Economy, Avoid Prosecution (Watch)
#15 Jeremy Scahill on Obama’s Orwellian War in Iraq: We Created the Very Threat We Claim to be Fighting (Watch)
#16 Koch Brothers Exposed: The Chilling New Documentary Republicans Don’t Want You to See (Watch)
#17 Prof. Ilan Pappé: #Israel Has Chosen to be a “Racist Apartheid State” with U.S. Support (Watch)
#18 Exclusive: DN! Goes Inside Assange’s Embassy Refuge to Talk WikiLeaks, Snowden and Winning Freedom (Watch)
#19 Snowden Docs Expose How the NSA “Infects” Millions of Computers, Impersonates Facebook Server (Watch)
#20 Who Goes to Jail? Matt Taibbi on American Injustice Gap from Wall Street to Main Street (Watch)
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Meet Alayne Fleischmann, the JPMorgan Chase whistleblower who explains how the bank helped to wreck the economy — and then got away with it.
“For a long time I believed that the government would do their investigation and come forward with it. It’s actually taken a really long time … I’m in the position where If I keep silent and the statute of limitation runs out, or they do one of these agreements where they whitewash everything, then it’s too late.”
Fleischmann joins investigative reporter Matt Taibbi for an exclusive interview on Democracy Now! today.
It’s a crazy thing when the leading law enforcement official of the nation comes out and says that some companies are just so big that we can’t prosecute them no matter what they do … This became the unofficial official policy of the Justice Department. And this greatly affected how they dealt with companies like JPMorgan Chase, CitiGroup, and Bank of America.
Matt Taibbi, investigative reporter for Rolling Stone who featured JPMorgan Chase whistleblower Alayne Fleischmann in his new article. Watch the exclusive Democracy Now! interview with both of them.
In his latest article for Rolling Stone, Matt Taibbi reports that Wall Street firms are now making millions in profits off of public pension funds nationwide.
“Essentially it is a wealth transfer from teachers, cops and firemen to billionaire hedge funders,” says Taibbi. “Pension funds are one of the last great, unguarded piles of money in this country and there are going to be all sort of operators that are trying to get their hands on that money.”
Like the way Matt Taibbi can break down these complicated financial stories? Click here to watch more of his recent Democracy Now! interviews.