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Lanny Breuer’s Defense of Not Prosecuting HSBC and its Officers

By William K. Black Quito: April 19, 2015 I have been researching the HSBC frauds for a column I am doing about Loretta Lynch, the U.S. Attorney who refused to prosecute HSBC or any of its officers for the largest and … Continue reading

HSBC Violates its Sweetheart Deal and Lynch Praises It

By William K. Black Quito: April Fools’ Day 2015 HSBC got a sweetheart deal from the Obama administration.  It laundered vast amounts of money for Mexico’s murderous Sinaloa cartel, helped bust sanctions for terrorists and mass murderers, and did not cooperate … Continue reading

HSBC CEO: My Pay Was so Outrageous I Had to Use Tax Havens to Hide it from My Peers

By William K. Black Quito, Ecuador: January 23, 2015 Greetings from Quito, where I will be spending four months teaching at IAEN about effective regulation and building ties with UMKC. The latest twists on the latest HSBC tax evasion and tax … Continue reading

The HSBC Scandal: A Red Flag for U.S. Regulators?

NEP’s Bill Black appears on Knowledge@Wharton discussing the HSBC scandal with Jennifer Blouin. You can see the story and hear the podcast here.  

How Dare DOJ Insult HSBC’s Crooks as Less “Professional” than Liberty Reserve’s Crooks?

By William K. Black Standard Chartered and HSBC’s leaders must be doubly humiliated by the description by Mythili Raman, the acting head of the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Criminal Division, of Liberty Reserve’s money laundering operation.  UK laws are, … Continue reading

Did Obama and Cameron require HSBC to aid the prosecution of Tax Frauds?

By William K. Black (Cross posted at Benzinga.com) I have explained in prior columns that HSBC is not only a criminal enterprise, but also a recidivist of epic proportions.  The U.S. and the U.K. have refused to prosecute not only … Continue reading

Why did Obama and Cameron save a Criminal Enterprise like HSBC?

By William K. Black Why is HSBC still in operation?  On the same day (December 10, 2012) that the Obama administration leaked the story of the HSBC settlement a story ran in the New York Times that was full of … Continue reading

Who Said This?

William K. Black Associate Professor of Economics and Law, UMKC December 5, 2018     Bloomington, MN  55437 I cannot write many blogs during the fall semesters because I teach four classes (I co-teach one of them).  The fall term of instruction … Continue reading

Bank of England: Taking the Banks’ Fraud Proceeds Slows Growth

By William K. Black October 20, 2016     Kansas City, MO Elite bankers and the pathetic economists who serve as apologists for their frauds specialize in proving our family saying that it is impossible to compete with unintentional self-parody.  The subtitle … Continue reading

Bloomberg Tells Michigan Grads They Must Defeat Bernie’s Plan to Jail Wall Street Felons

By  William K. Black May 2, 2016      Bloomington, MN Michael Bloomberg has just published, in Bloomberg, what he describes as “an adaptation of an address to the University of Michigan’s class of 2016.”  Having graduated twice from Michigan, as did … Continue reading