On Tuesday, PBS aired a Frontline report, “The Untouchables,” examining the reasons federal prosecutors had not charged Wall Street executives over the 2008 financial crisis. The program featured Lanny Breuer, who heads up the U.S. Department of Justice’s criminal division, and on Wednesday, the Washington Post was reporting that he was leaving his job.
The Post described Breuer’s tenure at the DOJ as “filled with controversy and high-profile prosecutions”—citing both the disastrous “Fast and Furious” gun-trafficking operation and the agency’s multimillion-dollar settlements with financial institutions in money-laundering cases.
