Republican Congressional Nominee: ‘All Those People On Wall Street Need To Be Investigated And Prosecuted’
By Scott Keyes on Aug 10, 2012 at 3:45 pm
A Republican congressional nominee in Michigan has called not just for investigations into Wall Street bankers, but prosecutions as well.
Kerry Bentivolio, who earned the Republican nomination in Michigan’s 11th congressional district on Tuesday following former Rep. Thad McCotter’s (R-MI) sudden resignation, detailed a surprising agenda for the financial sector during a radio interview late last year. Appearing on the Market Ticker show on October 17, 2011, Bentivolio told host Karl Denninger that Wall Street bankers “need to be investigated and prosecuted,” calling them “probably the biggest problem we have in this country.”
HOST: We talked about everything else, but [Gary Johnson] just would not say those people who committed these frauds and did these things, they need to go to jail.
BENTIVOLIO: On my Facebook page, go to a comment, I said, all those people on Wall Street need to be investigated and prosecuted. And those people outside protesting…[mic cuts out]. I think that says it all right there. The people on Wall Street, I think they’re probably the biggest problem we have in this country.
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