Obama's Dept. of 'Injustice'

[WhiskeyGirl]

From another thread, the questions remain - http://scaredmonkeys.net/index.php?topic=7409.0

Two subsidiaries of bailed out insurer AIG have agreed to pay at least $6 million to resolve claims of discriminatory lending, the Justice Department announced.

The subsidiaries, a bank and a mortgage lender, allegedly charged higher fees to African American borrowers.

The higher fees occurred between 2003 and 2006, before the federal government bailed out the insurer with a maximum exposure of $180 billion in taxpayer aid. The insurer was crippled under the weight of poor trades in financial derivatives products.

"Today’s settlement is significant because it marks the first time the Justice Department has held a lender responsible for failing to monitor its brokers to ensure that borrowers are not charged higher fees because of their race. If necessary, it will not be the last time," Thomas Perez said, assistant attorney general said in a press release.

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/85059--aig-subsidiaries-pay-6-million-in-racial-discrimination-settlement

Why didn't DOJ go after the brokers? 

Why socialize the discrimination?

What is the evidence?  Statistics? 

I have to wonder if this is 'statistical' discrimination.

How much more statistical discrimination will Holder's DOJ find when all employers are required to report race and pay information every other year?

What exactly are the details?  Where is the proof that race was related to the fees charged?

How many broker did AIG have? 

Of these two, how much of their business was with African Americans?

Was it the brokers who charged more?  Or did the brokers appear to charge more to African Americans?

How much non-African American business did the brokers have?

Did non-African Americans at those two brokers pay the same high rates?

For some reason the president wanted everyone to be real clear about who was responsible for 9/11.  Was it Islam?  Nations?  Or individuals?

Why doesn't the same standard apply to business?  Why wasn't the DOJ real clear about who was at fault?  Individuals?  Or an entire business?

Maybe this was black on black crime?  Maybe whites were victims of this broker duo too?

[WhiskeyGirl]

2nd Whistleblower: Reverse Racism at Justice Department

A Justice Department prosecutor defied his superiors by testifying at a U.S. Civil Rights Commission hearing Friday, where he leveled an explosive allegation: top officials in the department gutted a voter intimidation case against a fringe African American militant group because the suspects were black and their alleged victims were white.

The prosecutor, Christopher Coates, also said the downgrading of the case against the New Black Panther Party was evidence of a Justice Department culture which discouraged “race neutral” enforcement of civil rights laws, frowned on prosecuting minority perpetrators and folded under pressure from black and Latino rights groups. After President Barack Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder took office, the culture intensified, Coates told the panel, ultimately leading to his departure as chief of the voting rights section early this year.

Coates’ highly-charged testimony before the Civil Rights Commission echoed those allegations, as well as the testimony of J. Christian Adams, one of Coates’ colleagues in the voting rights section. However, Coates’s charges may carry greater weight because he worked decades ago as an attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union, has won awards from civil rights groups and lacks the partisan GOP resume of the department’s harshest opponents.

more here - http://www.thefoxnation.com/must-reads/2010/09/24/2nd-whistleblower-reverse-racism-justice-department