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Sherrod Brown: “The scene of the crime does not start with the regulators before us. Instead, we must look inside the bank, at the bank…”

On the recordMarch 27, 2023
The scene of the crime does not start with the regulators before us. Instead, we must look inside the bank, at the bank CEOs, and at the Trump-era banking regulators, who made it their mission, again, to give Wall Street everything it wanted.
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Sherrod Brown
Democratic · Ohio

Editor's note · Context

Criticizes bank executives and Trump-era regulators for contributing to bank failures.

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