Remember the DOJ task force story on banks friday?

[Ichingcarpenter]

Eric Holder Owes the American People an Apology



The Justice Department made a long-overdue disclosure late Friday: Last year when U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder boasted about the successes that a high-profile task force racked up pursuing mortgage fraud, the numbers he trumpeted were grossly overstated.


We're not talking small differences here. Originally the Justice Department said 530 people were charged criminally as part of a year-long initiative by the multi-agency Mortgage Fraud Working Group. It now says the actual figure was 107 -- or 80 percent less. Holder originally said the defendants had victimized more than 73,000 American homeowners. That number was revised to 17,185, while estimates of homeowner losses associated with the frauds dropped to $95 million from $1 billion.


The government restated the statistics because it got caught red-handed by a couple of nosy reporters. Last October, two days after Holder first publicized the numbers, Phil Mattingly and Tom Schoenberg of Bloomberg News broke the story that some of the cases included in the Justice Department's tally occurred before the initiative began in October 2011. At least one was filed more than two years before President Barack Obama took office.


http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-08-11/eric-holder-owes-the-american-people-an-apology.html

[Scuba]

1. "Eric Holder Owes the American People an Apology" Truer words were never spoken.

[Dustlawyer]

2. Holder is THE WORST AG IN HISTORY!!! He has prosecuted or not based on which 1% were caught!

He sold out to BP and let them off of probation early (BP was on probation for felonies stemming from their plant explosion in Tx., in 2005) right after we requested that their probation be revoked due to the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon in 2010! The 1% did not put all of their eggs in one Republican basket, they own most Democratic politicians as well. The Democrats get to play at being Democrats until called upon to quietly vote for the 1%'s issues that matter.

[Jackpine Radical]

3. He is not the worst AG in history.

But only because the bar is so low.

John Mitchell. Richard Kleindienst. Ed Meese. John Ashcroft. Alberto Gonzales.

[HardTimes99]

4. Talk about a rogues gallery! - nt

[Jackpine Radical]

6. Some of us old farts have long memories.

[HardTimes99]

13. Your post prompted me to go back and take a look at John Mitchell, because I remembered

all his skulduggery as director of CREEP (after he resigned the AG position in 1972). Turns out he had quite the reputation as a "Law and Order" type as AG. I think the lesson there is to beware of any politician claiming to be 'tough on crime,' as it is usually a cover for rank corruption.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_N._Mitchell

On a (semi) humorous note, has any politician ever campaigned as being 'soft on crime'?

[Downtown Hound]

10. Not quite the worst in history, but he does suck ass

Ashcroft was way worse in my opinion. Still, it's not much of a compliment when you have to turn to a man that lost an election to a dead guy for evidence that somebody's worse than you.

[woo me with science]

5. Lying liars. Lie, lie, lie, lie. lie.

We are lied to incessantly.

[forestpath]

7. So does Obama for choosing this fraud.

[Ichingcarpenter]

8. I applaud him on his drug sentencing talk

But really how much of that will be just show and talk to pacify the left's critics?

Meanwhile his DOJ is still busting pot clinics putting more people in jail. Rather than change the schedule which they can

Do we trust this guy when this story turned out to be bullshit?






three card monty.

[L0oniX]

9. When the banksters and war criminals get procecuted then I will again respect the law and

until then the law is only for the little people.

[OldRedneck]

11. Want to see some REAL reporting on mortgage and real estate fraud?

Check out these websites:

http://mortgagefraud.squarespace.com/home-page/


http://mortgagefraudblog.com/


http://www.californiarealestatefraudreport.com/archives/category/mortgage-fraud

[raouldukelives]

12. Gah, can anything be honest anymore? Fake justice, fake unemployment numbers, fake inflation numbers

One festering sore of socialist corptocracy with blessings and a Disneymerica reality for those who can afford it and the rest of us left to live in the true reality they obscure with billion dollar blinders.

[woo me with science]

14. Kick