MATT TAIBBI: Sure, there is a huge corruption case that just broke open
[on September 26]. What I would say about that, is what did Willie
Sutton say about why he robbed banks? That’s where the money is. Look,
pension funds are sort of the last great big unguarded piles of money in
this country and there are going to be all sorts of operators who
trying to get their hands on that money. During the crisis era, it was
Wall Street banks who were essentially looting these funds by selling
them toxic, fraudulent mortgage backed securities. In Detroit, it was
the workers themselves who were taking the money. They’re giving
themselves what they called 13th checks, taking advances of their own
money. But across the country the more typical narrative is not some
worker who is making $19,000 who is really making out in this kind of
corruption. It is the hedge fund who is making $50 and $60 million in
fees managing state funds. That is the much more typical narrative.
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