Í grein á vefnum Global Research er vitnað í William K. Black sem var gestur í Silfrinu fyrir stuttu. Hann talar um aðgerðaleysi og vanmátt yfirvalda gegn hvítflibbaglæpum:

Criminologist William K Black, a former bank regulator and expert on crimes committed by the men at the top—so-called “control frauds” referencing the practices of CEOS in control at big corporations—studied these reports pointing out that by 2008, there were only 62,000 “criminal referrals” in this industry with only agencies reporting crimes “mandated” by law to do so.  Only 1/3 of these illegal practices were even reported and, then, hardly any, in unregulated sectors which, in turn, dispensed 80% of them. These were the mortgages Wall Street bought, securitized, sliced and diced, borrowed against, and resold under false pretenses. Did they know? You bet they did.

He estimates there have been ½ million Fraudulent mortgage cases annually that should have been prosecuted but the FBI only has the capacity to handle 500 per annum because most of its white collar crime fighters were reassigned to the war on terror.

This is common says  Sam Antar, a former, or maybe not so former admitted white collar criminal who laughs at government attempts to control the crimes:

“ Because the government doesn’t have the resources to do it, and the white-collared criminals know it. The government basically ceded complicated crimes right after Enron. They ceded prosecuting complicated crimes. You see today, like the AIG thing, uh, Andrew Cuomo gets up there in front of the microphone and says, „We’re gonna get those bonuses back!!“ Any schmuck prosecutor could’ve gotten those bonuses back. Where are the complicated crimes that are being investigated? All we’re getting today is small dinky guys getting prosecuted here and there for relatively easy crimes to investigate.”