Greece to probe U.S. banks’ role in crisis: PM says U.S. banks may face legal action!!


UPDATE 1-Greece to probe U.S. banks' role in crisis-PM

Greek PM says U.S. banks may face legal action


By Angeliki Koutantou

ATHENS, May 16 (Reuters) - Greece may investigate U.S. investment banks and their role in the run-up to the Greek debt crisis which has shaken faith in euro zone economies, Prime
Minister George Papandreou said in comments broadcast on Sunday.

Wall Street and major banks around the world are attracting scrutiny from regulators who are looking at transactions that occurred in the run-up to the subprime mortgage meltdown and
financial crisis.

U.S. prosecutors are already conducting a broad criminal investigat... to determine if they misled investors.

"We are right now having a parliamentary investigation in Greece which will look into the past and see how things went the wrong direction and what kinds of practices were negative
practices," Papandreou told CNN.

"There are similar investigations going on in other countries and in the United States ... I hear the words fraud and lack of transparency. So yes, there is great responsibility
here," he said.
Asked whether there was a possibility of legal action
against the banks, he said: "I wouldn't rule out that this may
be a recourse also ... but we need to let the due process
proceed and make our judgments once we get the results from the
investigations."

The European Union and International Monetary Fund agreed a 110-billion euro ($140-billion) bailout of Greece a week ago after Greek bond spreads hit record highs which meant Athens
could not service its debts.

The Greek government has been forced to make swingeing spending cuts and hike taxes in an attempt to reduce its deficit from some 13 percent of GDP to the euro zone target of 3
percent.

Papandreou said his government had already cut its budget by 40 percent in the first quarter compared to last year and that revenues from VAT were also up by 10 percent.

But the measures are likely to come at a huge social cost and investors are watching closely the tide of anger and protests welling in Greece and looking to see whether
Papandreou's Socialist government will withstand the public
pressure or go soft on the reform programme.

But even as large protests regularly fill the streets of Athens, opinion polls show most Greeks believe the EU-IMF package was necessary to put the country back on track. Most
however believe the burden is being unequally shouldered by
ordinary people, while the wealthy and politicians prosper.

Papandreou said he was determined to succeed.

"What we are saying is that we are ready to make the changes. Greece is a proud nation, we have made our mistakes, we are living up to this responsibility, but at the same time give
us a chance, we'll show you," he said.
(Writing by Jon Hemming; Editing by David Cowell)

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Comment by 7R33SandR0P3S on May 16, 2010 at 5:27pm
Alex Jones just remarked in the first segment of today's Sunday broadcast, that the elite may have lost control of their planned worldwide economic collapse.

Comment by 7R33SandR0P3S on May 16, 2010 at 2:17pm
THIS WEEK IN SECURITIES LITIGATION (May 14, 2010)

They know that much of the world now knows so we will get a dog and pony show but it will only skew the facts, not remove them, as the people worldwide will not want to be saved (enslaved) with IMF fiat (more of the same) loans.
Comment by Anti Oligarch on May 16, 2010 at 2:04pm
Ooh yeah? Well Max keiser was on about this the other day apparently it's a whitewash for the entire bailout scam. They've hired ex Goldman Sachs CEOs to conduct the "independent" investigaton
Comment by 7R33SandR0P3S on May 16, 2010 at 1:39pm

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