During the arraignment, which lasted less than five minutes, the judge, Elyse Lazansky, said there was no need for bail, citing Ms. Kennedy's absence of a criminal record.
The jubilant men, released on warning with no need for bail, sang apartheid-era struggle songs and said they were eager to get home to their families.
The lack of a coherent response to the crisis of 2008 might be excusable if Mr Paul supported a convincing strategy for preventing the need for bail-outs in the future, for example by breaking up large banks.
"The Mayor has been clear about the need for bail reform, and we applaud the Speaker's leadership on this vital issue," Amy Spitalnick, spokeswoman for the mayor on budget issues, said in an email.
As of last month, the Department of Justice acknowledged the need for bail reform, but that won't help another group of people in the United States, many of whom spend years behind bars waiting for their court date, sometimes when they haven't even been charged with a crime.
Unable to raise the $500 needed for bail quickly, she spent three days in jail before she was found dead in her cell, supposedly from self-asphyxiation.
Yves Leterme, the senior OECD official presenting the report in Ljubljana, said that he had "no reason" to expect that Slovenia had "an immediate need for a bail-out".
There were no big bank failures, and no need for government bail-outs testament to the health of the bail-outs testament emerged from a previous crisis in toe mid-1990s.
All big banks would have an implicit guarantee, but it would not cover their entire balance-sheets.It is all too easy to pretend that new capital and liquidity buffers will be enough to prevent the need for future bail-outs, but it is unlikely to be the case.
