Jon Stewart blasts lack of real punishment for big banks' wrongful foreclosures
May 08, 2013
On his show Tuesday night, The Daily Show host Jon Stewart ripped major banks for wrongfully foreclosing on a stunning number of Americans. He noted that although the banks pulled trillions of dollars out of the economy, they had no fear of law enforcement. Their only punishment was paying a completely arbitrary $9 billion to settle a government lawsuit. Stewart remarked the $9 billion was big enough to sound significant, but small enough "to teach the banks no lesson whatsoever."
Watch video, via Comedy Central, below: