Is this the first step in the Government's ANTI RICO Racket Response against the market racketeers?

I wonder what the NY FED has to say about this and how long before a long list of RICO Racketeers get their obligatory perp walks:


JPMorgan, Lehman, UBS Named in Bid-Rigging Conspiracy
By William Selway and Martin Z. Braun
" March 26 (Bloomberg) -- JPMorgan Chase & Co., Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. and UBS AG were among more than a dozen Wall Street firms involved in a conspiracy to pay below-market interest rates to U.S. state and local governments on investments, according to documents filed in a U.S. Justice Department criminal antitrust case.

A government list of previously unidentified “co- conspirators” contains more than two dozen bankers at firms also including Bank of America Corp., Bear Stearns Cos., Societe Generale, two of General Electric Co.’s financial businesses and Salomon Smith Barney, the former unit of Citigroup Inc., according to documents filed in U.S. District Court in Manhattan on March 24.

The papers were filed by attorneys for a former employee of CDR Financial Products Inc., an advisory firm indicted in October. The attorneys, as part of their legal filing, identified the roster as being provided by the government. The document is labeled “list of co-conspirators.”

None of the firms or individuals named on the list has been charged with wrongdoing. The court records mark the first time these companies have been identified as co-conspirators. They provide the broadest look yet at alleged collusion in the $2.8 trillion municipal securities market that the government says delivered profits to Wall Street at taxpayers’ expense.

‘Sufficient Evidence’

“If the government is saying they are co-conspirators, the government believes they have sufficient evidence that they can show they were part of the conspiracy,” said Richard Donovan, a partner at New York-based law firm Kelley Drye & Warren LLP and co-chair of its antitrust practice. Donovan isn’t involved in the case. "

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=anl9vTKXKYyk&pos=10

It's taken the Government quiet a while to catch up with the future forecasts but we are here to serve for it is time for the righteous servants in Government to stand up and give notice to those that swindle whole countries for a living:

http://funy1.blogspot.com/2010/01/can-you-spell-r-i-c-o-by-any-other-name.html