{"id":167807,"date":"2015-07-24T14:47:14","date_gmt":"2015-07-24T14:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=167807"},"modified":"2015-07-24T14:48:45","modified_gmt":"2015-07-24T14:48:45","slug":"shame-eric-holder-wall-streets-attorney-general","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/shame-eric-holder-wall-streets-attorney-general\/","title":{"rendered":"Shame on Eric Holder, Wall Street&#8217;s Attorney General"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Well, well, well. Eric Holder is returning to his cushy job at Covington &amp; Burling where he reportedly pulled in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationallawjournal.com\/id=1202731265593\/Holders-Return-to-Covington-Was-Six-Years-in-the-Making?slreturn=20150610215422\" target=\"_blank\">$2.5 million<\/a> the last year he was there. Holder didn&#8217;t think it was strange he was returning to one of Wall Street&#8217;s most highly regarded defense firms after all the bankers he let breezily carry on with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/news\/eric-holder-wall-street-double-agent-comes-in-from-the-cold-20150708\" target=\"_blank\">fraud, bribery, money laundering, tax evasion<\/a> and plenty of other very prosecutable offenses during his tenure as US attorney general.<\/p>\n<p>Holder explained simply: &#8220;The firm&#8217;s emphasis on pro bono work and being engaged in the civic life of this country is consistent with my worldview that lawyers need to be socially active.&#8221; Yeah, and <em>what about the $2.5 million<\/em>, Mr. Holder? That&#8217;s got nothing to do with it surely.<\/p>\n<p>Holder had just spent six years in Washington handing out slaps on the wrist to financial institutions that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/news\/eric-holder-wall-street-double-agent-comes-in-from-the-cold-20150708\" target=\"_blank\">claimed<\/a> they were &#8220;too big to fail&#8221; while secretly receiving government assistance. His help almost certainly amounted to billions of dollars of aid to Wall Street. Now he&#8217;s trotting back on his high horse to go collect millions for his top position in the firm.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.truth-out.org\/opinion\/item\/32025-shame-on-eric-holder-wall-street-s-attorney-general\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, well, well. Eric Holder is returning to his cushy job at Covington &amp; Burling where he reportedly pulled in $2.5 million the last year he was there. Holder didn&#8217;t think it was strange he was returning to one of Wall Street&#8217;s most highly regarded defense firms after all the bankers he let breezily carry [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":167686,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,52,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-167807","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-money","9":"category-latest-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}