Yes. Although, as I have pointed out before, cf-community is not a court of law and you can say you think fraud was committed if you want to. You're allowed to have an opinion as long as it's stated as an opinion, under libel law.
However, I'd advise against that particular word, if only because it implies intent. Some of what happened probably was fraud. I remember posting a couple of years ago about mortgages that a mortgage-holder was refusing to work out, at the same time as they were packaging them into derivatives they recommended to clients. Pretty sure that was Goldman Sachs, and the McClatchy investigation was damning. It would be very hard to say that wasn't fraud. And yet that's where the administration is getting its financial talent? People are right to be outraged. On the other hand, do the individuals hired by Obama have anything to do with those derivatives or others like them? I dunno, and neither, probably do you. I do think that someone other than a relatively small newspaper chain should have found this important enough to investigate. On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 1:06 AM, Maureen <[email protected]> wrote: > > They don't have to prove innocence. They are innocent until proven guilty - > in a court of law, by their peers. > > There are people in both government and industry who are guilty of > malfeasance. I don't know who they are, but if they are found to be guilty > they should be punished. Do you disagree with that position? You slam > anyone working in the current government, yet defend any one on Wall Street > who might be guilty. Chaos rules on your planet, doesn't it? > > On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 4:23 PM, Sam <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> It's hard to get the government to investigate let alone indict their >> own when they control everything as they did when this was going on. >> >> But if that's proof of innocence why are you labeling unnamed bankers as >> guilty? >> > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:343703 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
