cases most of these cases got little attention but the media loves arch criminals like financier bernard madoff he's a complicated white collar crimes of which the government does not have the resources to throw really prosecute and the white collar criminals know it so they set it up not as a single transaction that's a crime but a series of transaction. once that it's all put together makes it a crime but to do that you have to go beyond the prosecution of one wrongdoer and look at the way wall street itself became a ponzi scheme you have to examine a pattern a system of criminality which brought the investment and real estate worlds together in a multi trillion dollars. scam. to simplify there were three interconnected rings in this circus involving the biggest firms in the industry it started in the real estate business where our desire for homes the in hurricane dream was turned into a scheme first predatory subprime lending over the years got people into mortgages they couldn't afford and that the lenders knew they couldn't sustain it was enabled by artificially low interest rates with fi

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iranian president bernard madoff ahmadinejaahmadinejad skwrad isg with a state official.e spoke to a crowd of thousands of supporters in a hezbollah stronghold a few miles from the israeli border. israeli leaders are causing this visit provocative. jenna: the federal budget is about 3 1/$2 trillion. that's a lot of zeros. what are we the taxpayers getting for that money. ashley webster is checking this all out. >> reporter: $3.6 trillion. what is a .1 trillion to your friends and family, it's your hard earned tax money being spent by the federal government. what we are doing is breaking it down. you can see uncle sam is joining me down. he's spinning the "wheel of fortune." this highlights where the money goes. it goes to defense, other government programming and to healthcare. for all the money you're putting into the federal government's budget what do you get? right here this little slither right here that's your share of the services and what you get back from the government, it totals $11,500 each. many of you will be a little distressed by that amount. it's not a wh