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The single most remarkable (and revealing) fact of the Obama presidency may very well be the lack of a single prosecution of Wall Street executives for the massive fraud that precipitated the 2008 financial crisis.

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Glenn Greenwald
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: March 6
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