Oh wow, the Department of Justice actually went after someone at HSBC. Are they trying to compensate for a recent report that concludes it let HSBC skate on its criminal money laundering business because it was too big to jail?

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/house-committee-says-hsbc-w...

And for background on the blatant money laundering they enabled: >drug dealers would sometimes come to HSBC's Mexican branches and "deposit hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash, in a single day, into a single account, using boxes designed to fit the precise dimensions of the teller windows."

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/outrageous-hsbc-se...