According to Assistant attorney general Lanny Breuer, HSBC laundered at least $881m in drug trafficking money by taking money from drug cartels in Mexican bank branches.
HSBC has been fined $1.9b - 4 weeks of their earnings, for the criminal offense of laundering money. Compare this punishment to the average punishment in 2001 for the charge of laundering money: a prison sentence of six years.
Instead of pressing criminal charges, the DOJ has said, "Had the US authorities decided to press criminal charges... the entire banking system would have been destabilised."
This petition demands that all people, regardless of income or employment, be treated equally under US law, and HSBC executives be criminally prosecuted for charges of money laundering.