Attorney General #39;s Weekly Video Message: The Life and Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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US Attny Gen. Eric Holder: Redskins Name Is Offensive And Should Be Changed
The Attorney General on the controversy over the Redskins #39; name - LoneWolf The Three Muskadoggies. U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said the Redskins name...
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50 Years Later: The Legacy of Gideon v. Wainwright, PT1
Welcome by Deborah Leff, Acting Senior Counselor for Access to Justice and Tony West, Acting Associate Attorney General. Remarks by Attorney General Eric Holder.
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By Evan Perez and Eric Bradner, CNN
updated 10:31 AM EDT, Tue October 21, 2014
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Washington (CNN) -- Attorney General Eric Holder said Monday that he found it "frustrating" that the Justice Department hasn't been able to carry out criminal prosecutions of executives whose risky banking practices blamed for the global financial crisis.
As Holder wraps up nearly six years at the helm of the Justice Department, the attorney general has drawn criticism for his department's record on white collar crime.
Holder frustrated no person went on trial for financial crisis
Some critics say the department failed by not bringing charges as a deterrent against shoddy practices on Wall Street. Some fault him for instead extracting billion dollar settlements from the world's biggest banks.
Holder has defended the department's record saying the settlements are one way to prod shareholder to hold management more accountable.
Still, in an exclusive interview with CNN on Monday, Holder acknowledged that the lack of criminal prosecutions of executives "is something that is frustrating."
"The American people should understand we looked at those matters, tried to come up with ways in which we could hold people and institutions accountable," Holder told CNN. "We have prosecuted certain institutions. We have gotten record amounts of money in and we've used that money for appropriate remedial measures so that people can stay in their houses, have their mortgages reduced. So a lot of good has come from our efforts in that regard."
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Holder interview: Things we learned
This June 6, 2013, file photo shows U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder testifying on Capitol Hill in Washington before a Senate Appropriations subcommittee. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File) more >
If theres one thing that Eric Holder regrets during his time as attorney general for the United States, its his failure to press through a Second Amendment crackdown on the heels of Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting that left 20 children and six adults dead, he said.
I think the inability to pass reasonable gun safety laws after the Newtown massacre is something that weighs heavily on my mind, Mr. Holder said during an interview with CNN.
He was speaking of the White House push to pass a federal background check mandate for all commercial gun sales, as well as an outright ban on so-called assault weapons and large-capacity ammunition magazines, in the wake of the December 2012 school tragedy.
The last of the legislative efforts to fail was a universal background check law that couldnt make it out of the Democrat-controlled Senate. President Obama then announced a slew of executive actions to curb gun rights.
But Mr. Holder still reflected over the stronger legislation that never did pass.
And the thought that we could not translate that horror into reasonable I mean, really reasonable gun safety measures that were supported by the vast majority of the American people is for me something that I take personally as a failure, he said, The Hill reported. And something that I think we as a society should take as a failure a glaring failure that I hope will ultimately be rectified.
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Eric Holder: 'I take personally as a failure' the inability to pass gun control