Saturday, January 10, 2009

Gordon Brown pushed HBOS to "Criminals"?

Lloyds TSB is to pay a fine of 350 million dollars (231 million pounds, no doubt eventually to be met from UK taxpayers) for what Reuters quotes as the following: "Lloyds' criminal conduct was designed to assist its clients in avoiding detection by filters employed by U.S. banks because of United States economic sanctions against Iran, Sudan and Libya," said a fact sheet on a deferred prosecution agreement between the government and Lloyds that was filed in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C.

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