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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?





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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Laurie Ferber: MF Global Chief Legal Counsel, on CFTC Global Markets Advisory Committee. Where Was She?





If we want to understand what went wrong in the pilfering of customer property, where was Ms. Laurie Ferber during the Senate Agricultural Hearings on MF Global?

 
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Why SIPC? MF Global Customers Were Thrown Under the Bus on Day 1





This goes for MFG's gold & silver customers too, who otherwise would have been put ahead of creditors.

 
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Tough Questions for MF Global, Conflicted Trustee Giddens & SIPC President Harbeck





Will the Senate step up and ask the tough questions, like why is a futures firm being liquidated under securities law and by someone with no experience with futures, whose firm shares MF Global's auditor?

 
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Dear Congress: Bernanke Just Lied to You





The Chairman of the Federal Reserve System is now writing letters to Congress in response to Bob Ivry articles.  Someone's scared...

 
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BOMBSHELL: Damning SEC OIG Audit of SIPC Raises Conflicts of Interest for MF Global Liquidation Trustee James. W. Giddens





Why did the CFTC abdicate its congressional mandate, pushing a futures broker into the jaws of SIPC where a trustee with no futures experience could rack up exorbitant fees?

 
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Gary Gensler: A U-Boat Sent into the CFTC?





Washington D.C. is filled with souless hacks.  Such men and women reduce themselves to be nothing more than instruments of others. 

 
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MF Global White Paper - Background, Impacts & Solutions - by the Commodity Customer Coalition





The failure of MF Global has wide ranging consequences for the American economy. Its bankruptcy is being handled in a manner that is making these consequences many magnitudes worse than necessary...

 
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Pollock: So that's why you're calling Jon Corzine a chicken on CNN? Koutoulas: Yes, where's the money, Jon?





 

The problem here is JP Morgan's lawyers are running the show...and they're running the agenda...Judge, the fox is in the hen house. JP Morgan cannot be dictating the agenda.

 

 
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