Wall Street Scalping

The public desperately wants a Wall Street scalp, or twenty...

So an incumbent Big Government will eventually toss the plebs a bone.

And it looks like that bone, to start with, is Ken Lewis - the rube who was gullible and Moronic enough to do Hank Paulson and Ben Bernanke's (read: Goldman Sachs'!) dirty work.

I know Ken, probably better than he knows himself, and Ken probably thinks he's got the *goods* on those two shysters - that if he's going down, he'll bring them down as well. Or at least that he has enough to save his own a$$.

Except that's probably not going to happen. He's most certainly going down. He may seem like an unfortunate scapegoat, but he's more than sufficiently culpable.

Tyler Durden of Zerohedge nails it:

To be sure, he is guilty of not simply stepping down when he was put in the position of having to decide between his job and lying to shareholders, which is precisely what happened in those fateful days in December of 2008. For his choice to proceed with the government's plan and to betray his fiduciary responsibility, he should be punished...

I'd advise all would-be on-pilers to get a head start. Because once the market, and BAC stock, starts to collapse anew....everyone is going to jump on Ken - not only because it's warranted, but also because it'll serve as yet more timely smokescreen for the bigger criminals, i.e. Goldman Sachs and their government apparatchiks.



For my master Ken Lewis link - click here.

And thanks to West Coast Tom for sending me the link!