trentwilliam said, "...Surely something illegal is happenings and has been happening for a long time"
Ever heard of something called the GFC 'trent'...?? Hint: That was 10 years ago when the Wall St Banks "broke the entire global financial system" entirely because of their own ..FRAUDULENT CRIMINAL.. behaviors...!!
So what happened to them..?? Was any, one, of them 'punished' for their own CRIMINAL behaviors..??
Well, no 'trent'..! Nothing punishment-wise happened, at least not to them..!! They were all simply pronounced as "being too big to fail" and then, the 'mug' US Taxpayers were forced to bail them all out, to the tune of Three Quarters of a US-$ Trillion.
And so, yes, 'trent' you're exactly right, "Surely something illegal is happenings and has been happening for a long time"
Welcome to 'the realities' of the global Capitalist Economic system 'trent'.