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Podcast: The SCANDAL Mongers Podcast
Episode: Ep.23 |The Great Global Banking Scandal - with Andy Verity
Description: The global financial system almost collapsed in 2008. Afterwards there was understandable anger at the behaviour of major private and national banks. A series of investigations resulted in many traders going to prison as a result of the alleged manipulation of the key interbank LIBOR rate.But were the right people punished? Award winning reporter Andy Verity thinks not and in his book RIGGED he makes a powerful case that ‘fall guys’ were set up and persecuted for crimes they never even committed - in fact for crimes that didn’t even exist. And that some of the pe...