Did anyone from Lehman Brothers go to jail?
As previously noted, criminal accountability for the 2008 market crash was extremely limited. Kareem Serageldin of Credit Suisse remains the only high-ranking banker in the U.S. to have been incarcerated for actions related to the crisis. While various regulatory bodies and the Department of Justice investigated dozens of firms and individuals, the vast majority of cases were handled through civil lawsuits, deferred prosecution agreements, or massive corporate settlements. This meant that while firms paid billions of dollars in fines, the individuals responsible for the reckless lending and securitization practices that triggered the crash largely avoided individual criminal sanctions.
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