On Wednesday, the Justice Department announced that, together with a handful of other regulators, it would fine Wall Street banks some $5.8 billion for their roles in the 2008 LIBOR interest rate and currency rigging scandal. As we learn more about the investigations, we’re also learning about the crazy things the crooked traders said to one another in online chatrooms, where they most often went to communicate. We mined the transcripts (from the CFTC, FCA, New York State Department of Financial Services, and others) and pulled together some of the most ridiculous quotes: Gems from the CFTC: COULD WE PLS HAVE A LOW ... (full story)