日本のヒーローの象徴はなんといっても赤穂浪士の忠誠。アメリカのHeroは正義と権力の糾弾にある。それによって大衆の被害者救済にある。なるほど民主的である。忠誠よりも正義が勝つということだ。
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Whistleblower who caused $9 billion JP Morgan fine speaks out for first time
'I could lose everything,' said Alayne Fleischmann, a former transaction manager and attorney at the firm. 'But if we don't start speaking up, then this really is all we're going to get: the biggest financial cover-up in history.'
BY Marc Weinreich / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS / Published: Friday, November 7, 2014, 10:33 AM / Updated: Friday, November 7, 2014, 11:05 AMA.
Canadian-raised Alayne Fleischmann spent two years at JP Morgan and revealed the innerworkins of the bank to federal prosecutors and the Securities and Exchange Commission. Her details led to the firm paying out one of the largest fines in U.S. history.=pic(LinkedIn)
The Cornell Law grad who caused JP Morgan to pay out $9 billion last year — one of the largest fines in U.S. history — spoke this week about what led her to blow the whistle in 2008 and reveal what she said was “massive criminal securities fraud” to the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Alayne Fleischmann, the Canadian-raised attorney at the bank, talked to Rolling Stone about how she tried to warn her managers about the fundamental dangers in re-selling sub-prime mortgages without at least warning investors about the inherent risks attached to making such investments.
‘You can't securitize these loans without special disclosure about what's wrong with them," Fleischmann recalled telling a managing director at the bank. "And if you make that disclosure, no one will buy them."
Fleischmann, who started out as a transaction manager at the bank, said that people at the firm assumed that she wouldn’t speak to friends, family or the media about what she saw during her two years there.
They were right, but only for so long.
She didn’t say a word because she had signed a non-disclosure agreement when she left the firm six years ago. Like anything, however, there was fine print, and she felt that she was allowed to talk to federal prosecutors because of her role as the central witness to potential criminal activity.
“The assumption they make is that I won't blow up my life to do it,” she said. “But they're wrong about that.'
Jamie Dimon remains CEO of JP Morgan Chase after leading the firm during now-proven criminal activity.=pic(Mark Wilson/Getty Images)
