The Chico News & Review, 20 Dec 2012 – HSBC Case Shows How The Rich And Powerful Are Immune From Prosecution Currently more than 500,000 Americans are imprisoned for nonviolent drug offenses, including tens of thousands of people whose only crime was simple possession of a substance the law states they shouldn’t have. And yet when Britain’s biggest bank, HSBC, was determined last week to have laundered $800 million of drug money in violation of U.S. banking laws, nobody was charged with a crime.
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