Two Bear Stearns hedge fund managers are off the hook for the financial crisis

It looks like any Americans eager to pin the blame for the financial crisis on particular Wall Street bankers have just missed a chance. How so? Two financial-crisis scapegoat candidates wriggled out of that role on Tuesday, thanks to the decision of a jury in Federal District Court in Brooklyn, N.Y.

The jurors decided that Ralph R. Cioffi and Matthew M. Tannin, who formerly managed two Bear Stearns hedge funds that imploded back in June 2007, did not lie to investors and that Cioffi did not violate laws against insider trading, according to the New York Times. This seems fine to me because I don't think they should get the blame for the financial crisis.