GS makes around $10 billion a year, are you saying that the profits for the last 10 years or more came purely from sales of MBS?

I know no one has been imprisoned over the financial crisis mess, but settlements like these truly show that the justice department and the SEC are doing a pretty good job at penalising the banks. Combined, the fines probably add up to hundreds of billions, my personal opinion is that this is way more than the banks did from selling these securities.