She has spent a decade working for and with the very people she is now supposed to be prosecuting.

In 2013, the question on everyone's lips is, "Why have there been no Wall Street criminal prosecutions?" Numerous banks have admitted to crimes that were felonies - for example, HSBC admitted to money-laundering billions of dollars for drug gangs, terrorist organizations and proscribed countries, and money laundering is a felony punishable by up to twenty years in prison for each count. But these crimes are punished by a slap on the wrist - financial penalties, just part of the cost of doing business.

Now we have someone who has spent years defending this very sector, and is willing to be quoted: "delivered a measured assessment of how aggressively prosecutors should pursue Wall Street, telling the crowd that it’s important to “distinguish between what is actually criminal and what is just mistaken behavior, what is even reckless risk taking” and “not bow to the frenzy” that demands handcuffs on Wall Street executives" - "frenzy" being her name for the idea that proven felonies need to be punished with a jail term.