Before his conviction on Monday, Tom Hayes, a 35-year-old former UBS and Citigroup derivatives trader, argued he had merely been taking part in a widespread practice of manipulating the Libor benchmark of interest rates. Sentencing him to 14 years’ imprisonment, Mr Justice Cooke saw things differently. “The fact that others were doing the same as you is no excuse,” he said.
在周一被定罪之前，35岁的前瑞银(UBS)和花旗集团(Citigroup)衍生品交易员汤姆•海耶斯(Tom Hayes)辩称，他只是参与了操纵伦敦银行间同业拆借利率(Libor)的普遍行为。然而，库克法官(Justice Cooke)不这么看，他在判海耶斯14年徒刑的时候说：“其他人与你做同样的事不是借口。”
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