Michael Oxley Quotes
Whoever knowingly alters, destroys, mutilates, conceals, covers up, falsified, or makes a false entry in any record, document, or tangible object with the intent to impede, obstruct, or influence the investigation or proper administration of any matter within the jurisdiction of any department or agency of the United States or any case filed under Title 11, or in relation to or contemplation of any such matter or case, shall be fined under this title, imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both.
Paul Sarbanes, U. S. Congressman & U.S. Senator (Democrat, MD) Michael Garver Oxley, U. S. Congressman (Republican, OH), Section 802 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002
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Helms, then Deputy CIA Director, and other CIA witnesses, even though under oath, covered up the fact that they had initiated and failed in a number of attempts to assassinate Fidel Castro which since became public knowledge. There may well have been other CIA motivations for misleading the commission. The fact that they did, as well as the FBI which also was not truthful with the commission, has led credence to all the wild conspiracy theories that people have come up with about the assassination. See {642340}.
George W. Bush had told the country that the reason for the Iraq War was that Iraq had developed weapons of mass destruction. After the invasion it was determined that there were no such weapons that had justified the war. Debate since has concentrated in whether the Bush administration had pressured the intelligence experts to provide the information they wanted to justify the war or whether the administration was misled by their intelligence agencies.
At the time of this interview there had been a decade of business fraud at many different levels. The regulatory agencies supposedly responsible for the regulation had neither the staff or the political will to even enforce the laws and regulations then in existence and there were many loopholes in those. Many business interests opposed all regulation and strict enforcement as a diminution of the health of the economy. Others, like Greenspan, saw fraud as corrupting the markets themselves and therefore the usual capitalistic economic competitive forces that would control business do not operate with extensive fraud.
The Senator asked Justice Department officials if the reason that there had been no prosecutions of any major financial figures associated with the Meltdown of 2008 and the Great Recession is that they were “too big to jail.” This appears to be the first public official to use this phrase. See {637991} for the Attorney General’s sad but truthful reply.
He was addressing the technique of the Special Prosecutor who had been appointed to investigate the relationship between the Donald Trump presidentical campaign and the Russian interference with the 2016 Presidential Campaign
Michael Garver Oxley was an American Republican politician and attorney who served as a U.S. Representative from the 4th congressional district of Ohio.
