Banking on justice

Posted by Al Lewis on December 16, 2012
Courts

Running drugs or running drug money. What’s the difference?

Well, if you’re a big enough bank, and you’re accused of running drug money, no one necessarily has to go to prison.

This week, I compare the justice doled out to British bank HSBC, accused of running drug money, and an architect who commutes between Tijuana and San Diego, who was found with nearly 13 pounds of cocaine in his car battery. Clearly, architects do not fare as well as bankers in the criminal justice system.

Click here to read my column in The Sunday Wall Street Journal.