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Is AIG's office about to get raided? Anyone with a camera phone at or about Pine Street please be on your guard for a slew of trenchcoated gentlemen carrying boxes full of toxic CDOs.

 

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Mon, 08/03/2009 - 09:44 | 22903 Econofresh
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What do you mean by that?

Mon, 08/03/2009 - 09:45 | 22905 Sqworl
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LOL..its Goldman removing paper trail...

Mon, 08/03/2009 - 10:09 | 22919 Anonymous
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EXACTLY my thought.

Mon, 08/03/2009 - 10:40 | 22952 Bob
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That was my thought as well.  Nobody more jealously guards National Security than GS. 

Mon, 08/03/2009 - 09:47 | 22907 aztrader
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I have a friend that runs a wealth division at a bank and his brother in law works for AIG.  A month ago, his BIL told him that the most effective thing at AIG right now was a shredder..........

Mon, 08/03/2009 - 09:49 | 22908 Anonymous
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We all know that hank Greenberg was the arch criminal at AIG. He stolen 10-20 billion dollars. Fine. But no repercussions, no charges, no prison time. Yet he conveyed many of his billions to his sons who are the front men for his new "insurance" companies!!! America is the most corrupt nation on the planet. Why hasnt Cass Summstein, lawrence summers, Holder, Geitner, Orszag, Bair pursued him? hahahahahah

Mon, 08/03/2009 - 10:02 | 22912 Gilgamesh
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Spitzer failed to realize that Hank was an untouchable.  Or, if he knew it, he underestimated the force behind.  This isn't about a corrupt 'nation.'

Mon, 08/03/2009 - 10:50 | 22971 Bob
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Spitzer clearly underestimated Big Money's ability to respond when threatened.  Not that a good PI in a garden variety divorce case wouldn't have pulled the same stunt, of course. 

Perhaps we should commission an international poll on that corruption question, however . . . perhaps others have a less biased position from which to judge American Exceptionalism. 

Mon, 08/03/2009 - 11:45 | 23033 Anonymous
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Big money has started wars and revolutions. Assasinated presidents and other "leaders".

Why would this little fix suprise anyone?

Mon, 08/03/2009 - 10:17 | 22926 Sqworl
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Geithner, Bernanke, Summers all got immunity from Bam's Financial Czar GS..lol

Mon, 08/03/2009 - 10:10 | 22920 Anonymous
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i work in the tower shared with AIG (west cost.) They use the space in that building as a back office. Well, they shredded all they could last November and I am talking about several tracks worth of paper. It was funny because you could see the shredded paper trail from parking lot to their floor. :) (that's how chaotic and hectic the whole process was.)

Mon, 08/03/2009 - 10:28 | 22934 VegasBD
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Did you take pics?

Mon, 08/03/2009 - 10:43 | 22957 Anonymous
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unfortunately no, market kept me preoccupied ...

Mon, 08/03/2009 - 10:30 | 22937 Project Mayhem
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lol  all hail the fail whale

Mon, 08/03/2009 - 10:32 | 22939 Anonymous
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Would love to see a raid on AIG, that carries over to Maiden Lane and then on then to government headquarters of Goldman Sachs

Mon, 08/03/2009 - 10:32 | 22942 curbyourrisk
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Would love to see a raid on AIG, that carries over to Maiden Lane and then on then to government headquarters of Goldman Sachs

 

Sorry, keep forgetting to sign on Mondays.

Mon, 08/03/2009 - 10:42 | 22956 Anonymous
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Those aren't law enforcement agents, they're the new government employees of The Department of AIG and Free Health Care Ministry.

Mon, 08/03/2009 - 10:45 | 22964 Gilgamesh
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Revisiting the SLM post (accurate as it was), the market seems to be working it.

 

SLM -4% as the SPX clears 1000.  OOM puts trading nicely too.

Mon, 08/03/2009 - 10:53 | 22977 Anonymous
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Bailouts do not work. They only extend the inevitable downfall.

Mon, 08/03/2009 - 10:56 | 22980 Anonymous
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Looks like the FEDS just RAIDED the Colonial Bank Building downtown Orlando FL....

related??

Mon, 08/03/2009 - 11:09 | 22996 jongreen
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#22980, Denninger posted something that might be related yesterday.

 

http://market-ticker.denninger.net/archives/1283-Is-The-FDIC-Broke-And-C...

 

Mon, 08/03/2009 - 11:12 | 22999 jongreen
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And his most recent post:

"FDIC fund down to 800bn? [not exact quote]"

"And oh, by the way, Colonial (which closed at 60 cents Friday) is trading premarket at 48 cents, and reported a stunning loss of $3.02 a share after the market closed Friday - or some five times its per-share price.  They also announced that a rescue financing pact they were working on has collapsed, making a FDIC take-over almost certain (if the FDIC ever does its job!)"

Mon, 08/03/2009 - 11:46 | 23036 Anonymous
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That should be "FDIC fund down to 800 million" (which wouldn't even cover Colonial). Which would then require them to go for emergency funding at which point the market might, just maybe, be forced back to reality.

Naaaaah...

Mon, 08/03/2009 - 12:20 | 23064 jongreen
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oops. 800bn is AFTER the next round of fund-raising.

Mon, 08/03/2009 - 11:33 | 23026 Anonymous
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Looks like the FEDS have backed a Rydertruck up to the loading dock to start hauling away documents @ Colonial Bank Building, ORLANDO FL.

Mon, 08/03/2009 - 13:25 | 23148 Anonymous
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Nice, this was the fist spot I saw this, thanks mate!

Mon, 08/03/2009 - 12:12 | 23057 Miles Kendig
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Side letters?

What side letters?

Mon, 08/03/2009 - 12:59 | 23116 Anonymous
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AIG is the conduit through which all the stolen taxpayer money is fed and dispensed to the bankers. It's quite effective. It functions much like a modern-day BCCI, the old CIA bank used for Iran-Contra dealings.

Mon, 08/03/2009 - 13:33 | 23159 Anonymous
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wrong Pine Street ?

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. (WOFL FOX 35) - - FBI agents from the Washington, D.C. field office have raided a building in downtown Orlando.

The building raided is the Colonial Bank building on Pine Street. The FBI is working with the Office of the Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program which was established by the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008.

from
http://market-ticker.denninger.net/archives/1286-FLASH-FBI-RAID!-Colonial-Bank-Building,-Orlando.html

Mon, 08/03/2009 - 15:34 | 23298 Anonymous
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zh never said specifically which pine street :D

good rumor, bad content

Mon, 08/03/2009 - 13:46 | 23178 Anonymous
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I hope they don't raid AIG, we need more speculation and gambling to heal the economy. bwahahaha

Mon, 08/03/2009 - 14:17 | 23206 Anonymous
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buy puts, heavy

Mon, 08/03/2009 - 14:32 | 23223 Anonymous
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I skeptical of the motives of this raid.

Mon, 08/03/2009 - 19:03 | 23472 Anonymous
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Not directly related but pam martens has a must read article out

Janet Reno Moves From Justice to McJustice
Millions of Americans Pushed Into No-Law System by Colluding Banks
By PAM MARTENS

As the newly appointed Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission prioritizes its agenda to investigate how a 200-year old system conceived to establish fair pricing and trading of stocks and bonds morphed into a rigged backroom casino of craps tables piled high with triple-A rated junk that crippled the world’s largest economy, they must place Wall Street’s private justice system at the top of their list for subpoenas.

The rationale is as simple as this:

(a) there is only one industry in America bringing the country to its knees;

(b) there is only one industry in America which requires its workers to contractually relinquish their access to the courts as a condition of employment;

(c) look under that rock first for the thousands of industry whistleblowers who walked out of these kangaroo courts with gag orders, leaving behind their documents, placed under seal by colluding lawyers.

http://www.counterpunch.org/martens08032009.html

Mon, 08/03/2009 - 19:34 | 23484 Anonymous
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Would love to have a video of GS moving from 85 Broad to 200 West which will occur in a month or two. But maybe they'll just start over with new machines and trash the old ones.

Mon, 08/03/2009 - 23:28 | 23653 tradeking13
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It was probably the Treasury delivering more bonus money.

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