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TARP Top Cop Neil Barofsky on Drug Lords and Mortgage Fraud

Clip: 8/7/2012 | 5m 1s

Paul Solman talks to former TARP cop Neil Barofsky about prosecuting mortgage fraud.

TARP cop Neil Barofsky, appointed by President Bush and retained by President Obama to prevent fraud in the nearly-trillion-dollar Troubled Assets Relief Program, talks to Paul Solman about why he took a job he didn't want, his brush with death in his previous job -- pursuing drug lords in Colombia -- and what he learned prosecuting mortgage fraud before the crisis hit.

08/07/2012

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