Fed Employee Gets Measly $2K Fine For Stealing Secrets and Giving Them to Goldman SachsBy Claire Bernish After pleading guilty to the misdemeanor charge of theft of government property, Jason Gross was ordered by U.S. Magistrate Judge Gabriel Gorenstein to pay a $2,000 fine and complete 200 hours of community service while on probation for one year. The disproportionate punishment disappoint[ed] prosecutors who said his leaking of confidential documents to a friend at Goldman Sachs Group Inc justified time behind bars, noted Reuters. If you ever required proof of the incestuous revolving door between government and the Big Banks, Gross measly sentence should suffice nicely. Prosecutors, who had sought a six- to twelve-month prison term, appear to be flummoxed, as Gross had admitted in November to providing confidential information to Rohit Bansal, his former supervisor at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York who had left to work at Goldman Sachs, Reuters reported. That confidential information, once in Bansals possession, made its way to other employees at Goldman with the simple caveat: Please dont distribute. Some Fed documents Gross handed over to Goldman pertained to an examination of another bank Goldman was advising at the time. Gross attorney, Bruce Barket, laughably downplayed the magnitude of his clients culpability in court. Barket claimed Gross simply thought he was doing a favor for a friend who had already seen those documents. I dont think he thought much of it, Barket explained. But as ZeroHedge noted, the leak of confidential information to Goldman had been taken far more seriously in 2014 though, it and another unrelated scandal involving the same Fed bank quickly disappeared from headlines. As the New York Times reported at the time, From his desk in lower Manhattan, a banker at Goldman Sachs thumbed through confidential documents courtesy of a source inside the United States government. The banker came to Sachs through the so-called revolving door, the symbolic portal that connects financial regulators to Wall Street. He joined in July after spending seven years as a regulator at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the governments front line in overseeing the financial industry. He received the confidential information, lawyers briefed on the matter suspect, from a former colleague who was still working at the New York Fed. As became apparent through an investigation, the banker turned out to be Bansal and the colleague, Gross. When Goldman hired the former New York Fed regulator, the Times continued, it assigned him to advise the same type of banks that he once policed. This whopping conflict of interest and the confidential document leak led Goldman to fire Bansal and a more senior employee, as well as notify regulators of the situation. The Fed also fired Gross. In October 2015, Goldman Sachs agreed to a related $50 million settlement with the New York Department of Financial Services yet another useless slap on the wrist. Charges were brought against Gross shortly after that. While Iceland and now Ireland imposed actual, tangible punishments for their criminal bankers over the 2008 financial crisis, the U.S. continues to look the other way. Though Gross misbehavior was unrelated to the crisis, it evidences the pattern of excusing bankers for virtually any criminal behavior they can dream up. When even corporate news outlets call out the Wall Street-Washington revolving door both Reuters and the Times did so, in this case the severity of the problem is quite clear. Claire Bernish writes for TheFreeThoughtProject.com, where this article first appeared. Banish the amish. WTF is wrong with you, the amish have nothing to do with anything but you keep spewing it every where you go, stfu already~ Looking at the traitors, enemy alien fifth columnists, banksters I see that everyone of these groups have one thing in common: they are dominated and controlled by the amish, just as the bolsheviks were. What many people are surprised to find out is that many of the top mentors of the bolshevik movement were based in NYC. Surely you know the orders to murder the Romanov family came from a certain bankster in NYC. This crap should have been shut down long ago. The judge and the perp are of the same tribe, go figgur. I smell a new weird odor. In China a few banksters were executed. Yes, thats the key word Croco, LOW in the hierarchy. In the West, errant bankers get to participate in the Bankorama Olympics, where they are judged on a scale of -10 to zero for their dives from 30 floors up. Well the fed bank is NOT a part of the fed government, so makes no sense~ The Creature From Jekyll Island The feds wont lift a finger to folks selling secrets to the banks -Im sure they promote such activity (who knows who HillBillary was selling secrets to). Before anyone bemoans the shattered careers of Bansal and Gross, check to see if they have landed at Covington Burling, where all the Government re-treads go to bulk up their portfolios. 