Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) is demanding answers as to why the Department of Justice failed to pursue criminal prosecutions for activities associated with the Great Recession of 2008.
On Sept. 15, the eighth anniversary of the recession-ushering Lehman Brothers bankruptcy, Warren wrote to the Department of Justice’s Office of the Inspector General seeking an investigation into the enforcement agency’s “inability to prosecute any of the individuals referred to the agency by the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission for potential law-breaking related to the 2008 financial crisis.”
