David Dayen has a great new piece (Weak Justice for Wall Street: How a Twisted Double Standard Saved Citigroup Millions) on CitiGroup failing to pay $20 million under the Independent Foreclosure Review:

Did Citigroup have to pay interest or make a late fee on two years’ of missed payments? No. Was its credit rating affected? No. Did it have a lien placed on its headquarters or bank branches, as would many debtors who failed to pay? No. Did the OCC call them in the middle of the night and threaten to garnish their tax refund? No. Were they in any way treated the way “deadbeat borrowers” are in this country? Nah. In fact, they got to use that $20 million for two years, and profit from it, without punishment.

Read the whole article here: Weak Justice for Wall Street: How a Twisted Double Standard Saved Citigroup Millions