in prison and now that man who alternately was making those decisions as left his job so will don siegelman case be revisited or the bank stores on wall street here is because that as attorney and host of ring of fire radio might happen tonio a mike. just great great to have you with us as an attorney does this make any sense to you not prosecuting out of fear of what might happen to the business if it shuts down. having been a prosecutor i never thought about that it's kind of the equivalent of saying somebody that you can send a mail on the street to prison or to jail for doing something wrong and you know the family's going to be affected he's going to lose his job but when it comes to when it comes to wall street there's a different standard and this administration unfortunately that this story that you're talking about i think the landing of that story is this fault falls right at the feet of president obama i'd like to say differently but i've been saying that now for about three years this is a president who appointed geitner he appointed summers an entire gaggle of goldman sachs inn

bradley manning whistleblowers like john kerry who are politicians like former alabama governor don siegelman who dared to take on karl rove and medical marijuana growers receive the full brunt of the american justice system and suffer dearly for their crimes or non crimes. but at the same time banks who steal billions of dollars and corporate executives who are responsible for the deaths of their employees and oil rigs in a mine shaft never see a day in jail remember when conservative photojournalist james o'keefe and his colleagues walked into a sitting united states senator's office and tried to wiretap or phones o'keefe got three years probation. but aaron's crime was worth thirty years in a million dollar fine. it's clear if you are right winger defending the oligarchy of corporate america or the justice department gives you a break but if you try to speak truth to america and protect the common man's access to information and economic opportunity then you're treated as an enemy of the state the occupy movement drew attention to those two tiered corrupt justice system this is a gave atte