“You say when you’re caught, ‘While I clearly have done nothing wrong, I know you’re a busy man and your time is valuable,’” Mr. Stewart said.

Mr. Serageldin was the subject of a recent New York Times Magazine article by Jesse Eisinger of ProPublica – who also writes The Trade column for DealBook. Mr. Eisinger appeared briefly on the show in a clip.

What’s more, Mr. Stewart added, “As Wall Street suffers, the real perpetrators of financial district wrongdoing continue to pay no price.”

Until earlier this week, Mr. Stewart jokingly fumed, more bankers had gone to jail than those who participated in a more heinous crime against the financial system – Occupy Wall Street activists. That changed on Monday, when a jury found Cecily McMillan, 25, guilty of assaulting a police officer at Zuccotti Park in Manhattan in 2012.

“The arc of the moral universe is long,” Mr. Stewart said.

“The Daily Show” correspondent Samantha Bee – bearing the title “Senior FVU Correspondent,” for Financial Victims Unit – said everyone on Wall Street was breathing a sigh of relief now that Ms. McMillan was “finally off the streets.”