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	The department found &quot;there is not a viable basis to bring a criminal prosecution with respect to Goldman Sachs or its employees,&quot;it said in a statement quoted by several news reports late Thursday.</div>
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	The investigation came after a US Senate committee last year slammed the financial services giant for including investments tied to subprime mortgages in its clients&#39; portfolios while betting its own money on the imminent collapse of the credit market.</div>
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	Goldman Sachs has come under attack by politicians and the public in the past few years, both for its own actions and as a focus for wider criticism of the financial sector.</div>
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	&quot;We are pleased that this matter is behind us,&quot; the New York-based bank&#39;s spokesman David Wells was quoted as saying by the reports.//DPA</div>

US not to prosecute Goldman Sachs in mortgage crisis

New York - The US Justice Department said it would not prosecute the investment bank Goldman Sachs Group Inc over an alleged role in the mortgage crisis that touched off a global recession in 2008.