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Recent Articles from Jonathan Weil

Business November 22, 2013

Why believe what government says about JPMorgan?

Of this we can be fairly confident: There is nothing in JPMorgan's admissions that would be damaging to the company. JPMorgan's attorneys can be proud.

Business September 3, 2013

Commentary: JPMorgan investigations are America’s new pastime

Hardly a week goes by without a new report about a government investigation of JPMorgan Chase & Co. and how much money the bank might have to pay because of some alleged violation of the law.

Business August 13, 2013

Commentary: Do Bank of America victims think they got taken

The Justice Department accused Bank of America Corp. this week of defrauding Wachovia Corp. and the Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco in a 2008 mortgage-bond deal. Here’s the funny part: Neither one has claimed it was defrauded by Bank of America in the transaction.

Business July 26, 2013

Commentary: Cases against Cohen, SAC won’t be a slam dunk

There are few easy wins for the government in high-profile trials of white-collar defendants.

Business July 15, 2013

Commentary: This is the wrong way to defend yourself if you get sued

It’s one thing to blow your reputation by slapping AAA ratings on all sorts of garbage subprime-mortgage bonds. It only makes it worse to go into court years later and argue that your most cherished values are, for legal purposes, a bunch of smoke.

Business November 20, 2012

Banker math meets the Justice Department’s cooks

Eric Holder has said he doesn’t know if he will stay on as U.S. attorney general, now that President Barack Obama has been re-elected. Here’s something to help them decide: A story about how the Justice Department got caught fudging its numbers on financial-fraud prosecutions — again.

Business July 27, 2012

Commentary: Saying ‘you’re fired’ is the only answer here

Never underestimate the government’s capacity for incompetence when it comes to overseeing large financial institutions. The latest example: an ill-advised consulting contract between Freddie Mac’s outside auditor and the federal agency in charge of running the company.

Business April 6, 2012

Commentary: Groupon IPO scandal is sleaze that’s legal

Here’s an unsettling fact for anyone thinking of ever buying shares in a newly public company: Even if its executives know their internal accounting systems are a wreck, they aren’t required to disclose this until after the company goes public.

Business February 6, 2012

Commentary: MF’s money mystery is how much it paid Moody’s

So many times when the big credit-rating companies have embarrassed themselves, the world has sighed and chalked it up to a business model that by design invites corruption and incompetence. Perhaps never before have the public’s expectations for the industry been lower.

Business January 13, 2012

Commentary: Financial frankness is a bad dream for a bank

There’s a simple explanation for why the world’s zombie banks remain so reluctant to write off worthless assets and tap the equity markets for fresh capital. They don’t want to end up like UniCredit.

Business November 11, 2011

Commentary: Financial scandal aficionados never had it better

If you happen to be a connoisseur of accounting scandals, then the past month or so has been about as good as it gets, capped by the unfolding disaster at Olympus Corp.

Business October 7, 2011

Commentary: Hard to know who’s too big to fail

Two years ago if you had asked whether the commercial lender CIT Group Inc. was too big to fail, the answer would have been an emphatic no. The Treasury Department had rejected its latest bailout plea. In November 2009, after 101 years in business, CIT filed for bankruptcy.

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