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Justice Dept.: No Financial Firm Is ‘Too Big to Jail’

A Justice Department official insisted on Wednesday that no financial company is too big to jail, in the department’s latest effort to backpedal from statements made in March by Attorney General Eric Holder. “No institution and no individual is immune …

Bankers to Be Held Personally Liable for Sanctions Violations: U.S. Treasury

The U.S. Treasury Department plans to hold bankers personally responsible and subject them to fines when their banks help countries such as Iran evade economic sanctions. The shift is in line with recently declared intentions also to hold individual bankers …