• rcwhalen
    05/25/2012 - 09:44
    We will only learn about currency risk exposures as and when the creditors disclose same to investors.  In the meantime, we’ll have lots of fun watching media spin their wheels over the...

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MF Global Roundup: the [so-far] Great Escape of "Teflon Don" Corzine; Bankruptcy Shenanigans Exposed; the "F" Word Revisited





Has the case really gone cold? Or, are those who are in charge of the investigation, the "regulators" and the trustees, simply spraying teflon on every piece of sticky evidence that could lead to criminal prosecutions?


 
 


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MF Global Circus: A New Senate Hearing & CFTC Divulges Exclusive Emails Re Corzine/Gensler Meetings





Three rings...count 'em. Or, are those jail cells? New emails show MF's General Counsel Ferber desperate to get Corzine in front of Gensler and keep the zombie Corzine Trade alive.


 
 


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Mystery of the Day: Who Wrote This Email to the Fed Just Before Lehman's Collapse?





"We must end the insanity of 'too big to fail'...if the repo markets shuts down, it's game over. And I am not trying to be dramatic"


 
 


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MF Global Roundup: Louis Freeh Feeling the Heat; Bill Black Talks Fraud on Capital Account





Freeh accused of taking $ from Iranian terrorists and taking an MF insurance policy away from customers to pay Corzine's legal defense


 
 


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Tough Questions for CFTC's Gary Gensler as He Heads to Congress to Beg for Money





Fourteen months, one MF Global carcass and $1.6 billion in "vaporized" funds later, does the CFTC still regulate the futures markets by fax?


 
 


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Was MF Global Worth More as a Carcass?





Why MF Global might well be the template for future looting.


 
 


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Santelli to Chilton: Will the SEC Serve Itself a Wells Notice Regarding an MF Global Bond Offering?





#f0f0ea; font-weight: normal; color: #1e1e1e; line-height: 40px; width: 465px; display: inline; font-family: calibri, arial, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: left; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">CFTC Comissioner Runs From Questions, Admits SEC Should be “Looked Into”


 
 


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MF Global Customer Funds Were Not "Vaporized" - Stanley Haar Takes WSJ to Task





Your article gives the appearance of having been ghost written by Andrew Levander and/or the JP Morgan legal department.


 
 


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More Details on How MF Global Customers Got Thrown Under the Bus





CFTC article from 1993 warned of dangers of SIPA liquidation for a futures broker. So why Ch 11 for the parent company, which destroys customer rights?


 
 


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Barclays Accused of Criminal fraud for Golden Key in Geneva





One independent investor from Geneva has foregone the US court system and filed his own criminal complaint against the bank and the collateral manager they hand picked...


 
 


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