After years of scandals and abuses, it's hard to be surprised by the criminal behavior of major banks. Typically, though, exposes of bank wrongdoing have focused on their financial shenanigans.
But yesterday, thanks to the dogged work of Senate investigators, we learned that the criminality of some banks goes much deeper, with these institutions servicing drug traffickers and terrorist-linked entities, and circumventing U.S. laws governing ties with rogue states like Iran, Sudan, and North Korea.
All to boost the bottom line.