3 Months After The MF Global Bankruptcy, We Find That $1.2 Billion (Or More) In Client Money Has "Vaporized"
On the three month bankruptcy anniversary of the company whose rehypothecation gimmicks will one day be seen as a harbinger of everything that is broken with the multi-trillion ponzi system, but not just yet despite loud warnings otherwise, we are getting close to a final verdict of where the $1.2 billion (and possibly more as originally predicted by Zero Hedge - see below) in commingled client money may have gone. Note the use of the passive voice because using the active, as in money that MF Global executives stole from clients, is prohibited in a legal system in which nobody goes to jail for something as modest as $1.2 billion in theft. That verdict? "Vaporized." No really (and yes, in the passive voice of course). From the WSJ: "As the sprawling probe that includes regulators, criminal and congressional investigators, and court-appointed trustees grinds on, the findings so far suggest that a "significant amount" of the money could have "vaporized" as a result of chaotic trading at MF Global during the week before the company's Oct. 31 bankruptcy filing, said a person close to the investigation." Uh huh... Because money simply vaporizes. Which means one of two things: i) the "vaporization" is merely the phrase that so called investigators use to avoid the far more troubling sounding "stolen" as it would imply guilt, something which the former NJ governor and Goldman CEO (and not to mention JP Morgan which most likely was on the receiving end of the $1.2 billion + transaction) will, under guidance from counsel, sternly disagree with, or ii) the capital markets are such an unprecedented and manipulated fraud, that nobody has any clue at any moment, where any client money is, and that any residual capital still "invested" in mythical representations of "assets", which are likely rehypothecated so many times, that not even Bank of America's robosigning division would have a clue where to start unraveling, will promptly be converted into tangible manifestations of capital. So when someone asks what happened to stock market volume, and to investor confidence in the "stock market" feel free to use just that phrase: "it vaporized."
WSJ "explains" how $1.2 billion "vaporized"
Many officials now believe certain employees at MF Global dipped into the "customer segregated account" that the New York company was supposed to keep separate from its own assets—and then used the money to meet demands for more collateral or to unfreeze assets at banks and other counterparties as they grew more concerned about their financial exposure to MF Global.
Investigators also are examining other scenarios that have gained traction in recent weeks, such as the possibility that MF Global suffered steep losses on investments made using customer money. Officials investigating the case have looked into whether such investments were appropriate under rules at the time.
As money poured out of MF Global, much of it likely passed through J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. and other banks where the securities firm had accounts, as well as trade-clearing partners such as Depository Trust & Clearing Corp. and LCH.Clearnet Group Ltd., people familiar with the matter said.
Those companies have denied being knowingly in possession of any missing MF Global money, and any efforts to make them fill the hole would face daunting hurdles. And because the firms usually were middlemen between MF Global and other counterparties, the funds they touched were then scattered widely, complicating the search.
So one hand, nobody at MF Global was responsible because every member of lower, to middle to upper management was responsible (and certainly not Jon Corzine), secondly, not one regulator was responsible, because every regulator was equally oblivious of the grand theft occurring right under their noses. Finally nobody on the receiving end of this fund flow was responsible, as the money could have ratably gone to one of an infinite number of destinations. And here we were thinking that dilution is only applicable to what the central banks do to their currency. Little did we know that it is the de facto global modus operandi for the systemic fraud endemic in modern finance, whereby not one person is held accountable, as otherwise everyone would be held accountable.
Brilliant.
Finally, it is becoming once again apparent that the final tally will be at least $1.2 billion. To wit:
But hundreds of millions of customer dollars are potentially snarled in litigation with other parts of MF Global, including its U.K. arm, and U.S. officials might never be able to recover those funds. As a result, Mr. Giddens believes the shortfall is at least $1.2 billion, though regulators at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and CME Group Inc., parent of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and New York Mercantile Exchange, have estimated the total is smaller than that.
Visually:
And from Zero Hedge November 1:
Doing some quick inverse addition and we get a (w)hole of $5.45 less $2.5 less $1.5 or $1.45 billion. In other words, the theft by MF Global was not stealing hunderds of millions form its customers: it has stolen a whopping $1.5 billion! For those confused, this is not a rogue loss of $1.5 billion, something which was enough to send UBS' Kweku to prison. This is outright theft resulting from illegally commingled accounts. Our only question is will $1.5 billion in theft be enough for the first real perp walk of an Obama-friendly Wall Street executive?
It is becoming increasingly difficult to even care anymore; it is also becoming increasingly certain that any client capital in the "markets" will sooner or later disappear in one of many comparable bankruptcies, and there just like here, nobody will be held accountable, as holding someone accountable will actually expose to everyone the whole scam that is modern ponzinomics, in which binary representations of money in the forms of ones and zeros, not only don't exist in the real world, but is in effect collateralized by the same ever smaller pool of dwindling hard assets. Not only that, but someone may actually, gasp, go to jail.
And that is not allowed under a legal system which is in bed with the very financial system that preserves it and funds it.
Ironically, it is the conspiracy theory movie, "The International" that captures precisely the interplay between the terminally broken and beyond corrupt legal system and modern financial markets:
WEXLER
Justice is not possible.
SALINGER
Why not?
WEXLER
Because, Agent Salinger, your idea of justice is an illusion. Understand the very system that you serve and protect will never allow anything to happen to Skarssen [i.e., Jon Corzine] or the bank [i.e., insert any current bank]. On the contrary. The system guarantees the IBBC's [i.e., insert any current bank] safety because everyone is involved.
And that should answer all questions about how $1.2 billion can simply "vaporize."
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And it's gone
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAKsMnAM8vk
Blythe has vaporized to DBank baby.
No she wasn't. Google is your friend. Masters is simply replacing DB's Faissola as head of the GFMA:
From the FT:
Well, if there was ever a time for money to vaporize it's now. The shit's becoming less valuable than steam in a Greco-Roman bathhouse.
Just think... you have to subscribe to the WSJ to read that fantastic piece of investigative journalism... Vaporized... OMFG
The money didn't vaporize. They lost it settling margin calls and doubling down on bad bets. The counterparties got it. The itsy bitsy problem was that the money didn't belong to them. Oops.
"Many officials now believe certain employees at MF Global dipped into the "customer segregated account""
It's not stealing. Sorry M'Lud, I didn't steal his money, I just 'dipped into' it.
can I go now...
Tyler said:
We're going to need a lot of rope, a whole lot of rope.
Protesters are being held accountable, 400 arrested in Oakland over the weekend.
That's all just scripted theatrics. They want to create stoke the anger and indignation to light the spark that sets off the chaos that will form the perfect atmosphere for the assumption of all power.
And by "they" I mean TPTB as well as their little idiot minions in the occupy movement who don't see thay are being played like a skin flute.
MF was a profitable test run. When the riots commence, trillions will be transferred to bankster accounts. "Gee, all the evidence burned when they set fire to our office."
How about gasoline? Faster, wider application against institutional targets. Wow, looks like your bank headquarters just vaporized, hmm?
In a serf's world, receiving stolen property is still a crime. Get caught with a TV that "fell off a truck" and they'll send in a S.W.A.T. team.
Oh, and the SWAT team? They will kill you. Even if they knock down your door by "accident" and you're completely "innocent". They don't really give a flying "fuck". So just relax and wait for your door to be shot in.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/25/jose-guerena-arizona-_n_867020....
http://www.injusticeeverywhere.com/
Protect and serve is over, the police have been militarized. The pols know soemthing is coming, say iran activates a few teams in the U.S. perfect reason for the sheep to urge Bammy to really grab some power. Domestic police as well equipped as the armed forces, remember..
It's like drummers in Spinal Tap. Spontaneous combustion.
Yeah, but even that left a little green globule
As I recall, one of the [Spinal Tap] drummers died in a gardening accident, yet that is completely relevant to the missing account monies as inspectors claimed -the accident was best left unsolved-
OK REDPILL...you have a bunch of physical gold locked up, so tell me how does an institution just vapirize physical gold in their trust?
I know someone who had physical gold with them and it is gone! And, it wasn't a hand full of Gold Eagles either.
Ha ha Ha. I'm going to try that one with the tax man. Sorry mate, vaporised. Can we forget about it now?
"What? You didn't get my check? I sent it to you in March... Hmmm... Must have vaporized. I don't know what to tell you. I sent it to you, and the money's just not there anymore. Hey, don't sweat it, we'll try again next year, okay?"
It's ok. I've got some customer accounts I can just 'dip into'...
It's ok, it's not stealing...
Well would you believe it, they've all vaporised.
Who could possibly have foreseen that?
...If you need me I'll be in Hawaii... till the vapor runs out anyway...
which should be in about 400 million years...
auuu I am ... am am am not in a position..gievn the number of transactions and know...anything specifically about the movement...eehmmm..any specific funds...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgyqaqTpgeY
"Arghhhhhhhhh, all your goyim fiat are belong to us! Ughhh Arrrr, we are the disciples of the light bearer! The holy synagogue of Satan! Beasts of burden, Serve your dark master! We vaporize fiat, like we vaporize Gentile babies! Now attack Iran or we shall be forced to false flag you again!"
blythe is so hot she could vaporize slewie! L0L!!!
the money?
well, it was vaporized! according to mrTylerDurden, a PD bank going tits up results in proton revesal, vaporizing the sheeple's money
trust me!
lol - that dam proton reversal will get ya.
money doesn't smell ... but it vaporizes. thin air, no less no more.
Many years ago I had the opportunity to fly into Florida to interview Ted Bundy about a cold homicide case that we had reason to believe he committed and the only thing we wanted was to find the body and clear the case prior to his execusion. He offered possible locations but nothing was recovered.
Maybe Corrzine has the same problem - too many crimes and can't seem to remember one from the other. Like Ted he is offering bits of information to stay alive. I would have not lost a minute of sleep to see Bundy in the electric chair.
when i interviewed him he told me it was an acquired taste
which was the acquired taste?
the killing?
the lying?
the chair?
Perhaps a trip to Gitmo for Corzine and employees and a few months of waterboarding, sleep deprivation, and stimulation by electrical probes in various orafices might refresh their memory about what happened leading up to the 'vaporization'?
Financial terrorisim is still terrorisim. The NDAA could be interpreted to cover the MF Global financial terrorisim, could it not?
If we asked those that lost money with MF Global I feel sure they would agree with me...
You have much to learn, Grasshopper. See, only the little people go to jail. The big people, who are campaign donors, pass Go, collect $200 million, and proceed directly past Jail to their high rise on Boardwalk. That's how the game works.
actually, no...they won't/don't agree with you. They are very quiet, did you notice? Only the ones who are NOT investment and hedge funds are screaming. The hedge, mutual, and other "fund' customers that FM had are very quiet...Why you ask?...because they don't want to piss off any other possible relationship they may have with another MF type primary dealers and be shut out of the system.
Poititicans don't squeel on their buddies, investment bankers don't either.
You know how corporations hire talented hackers to try to hack into their securtiy systems, or hire thieves to break in to their buildings and test them for their weak spots? Ms. Masters will be wonderful in her new spot...
Saw a funny ad this evening, declaring bank robbers had stolen millions of dollars last year, while identity thieves had stolen like 30 billion. They were selling an Identity Shield product.
We have vermin that vaporize trillions. What da ya got for that?
Davos.
"We have vermin that vaporize trillions. What da ya got for that?"
....................................
I got phizz PMs... Whatcha got?
"JP Morgan is attempting to widen their PM suppression influence into Europe. Sends Blythe Masters to Deutsche Bank. In a related story, Angela Merkel to campaign for Sarkozy"
http://maxkeiser.com/2012/01/30/jp-morgan-is-attempting-to-widen-their-pm-suppression-influence-into-europe-sends-blythe-masters-to-deutsche-bank/
Not sure Google is my friend but research certainly is..
Or the OG-ZH-EP version:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TlPo0yCSa4&feature=related
they hafta claw back the money from the banksters what jumped the line and done tooked it! we can do this. forenslewic accounting, BiCheZ!
You will never see that statement, "the money vaporized", emerging from the FBI in full effect. Only fools can hear those words and be contented to inform a fake reality out of a confluence of ordinarily otherwise useful words. The conclusions are yours. Banksters shot the sheriff and let the deputies play house and talk on TV playing the moderate 80% being taken to the cleaners.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEmJ-VWPDM4&ob=av2e
Its vaporized, hah hah hah hah hah.
seg funds, ha ha ha,
regulators. hee hhee hee.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdJ8x6lyrfo&feature=related
What we (bankers) created (money), we may also take away.
Vaporizing is the opposite of printing. Must be pretty common in marginal reserve banking.
yesterday it was called 'fractional reserve banking', today it is called 'marginal reserve banking', tomorrow it will be called 'nothing banking'... wait... how would bankers call 'nothing'?... maybe: 'federal value asset banking'.
I prefer 'FICTIONAL RESERVE BANKING'...
...or Fraudulent Reserve Gambling.
LOL. At first glance, I though I read 'fractional reverse banking.'
Sometimes dyslexia tells the uncomfortable truth.
Marginal Reserve Banking sham exposed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lvn0fH3hgeU
Of course nobody goes to jail...
Madoff went to jail cause he fucked over the big boys on (and off) the street...
Corzine simply fucked over the usual suspects... sheeple... no jail...
fixed...
Madoff went to jail because he fucked over members of his own tribe on (and off) the street...
see this:
http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2008/12/charities_old_people_jews_hit.html
But Corzine was unaware
Move on people. Nothing to see here.
That's why Biden calls John in a crisis, because he knows what to do.
Just like Vincent and Jules called in The Wolf.
big difference...not being "aware" and "not knowing." CEO Corzine's exact words were "i don't know" when it came to what happened to the money. His words were not "i wasn't aware"...implying a: "he knows the absolute importance of knowing" and b: "either he was willfully kept in the dark about what was going on, didn't wanted to be bothered by knowing or (almost certainly) had no way of knowing cuz it was too damn complex."
Subscribed to this weekly stuff, they've been right about almost everything lately: http://www.armadamarkets.com/2012/01/weekly-market-update/
So, how's that hopey changey thing going fer ya?
Can any of the residual vapor be sniffed?
God is away on business .... TW.
ROFLMAO
Fscking hilarious.
Somewhere someplace there's a Big Foot reading ZH and he's pissed at this insult to his species.
Loved the newstand Weekly World News, miss it.
"Not only that, but someone may actually, gasp, go to jail."
How I wax contemporary for the day of the guilltenne.
"Not only that, but someone may actually, gasp, go to jail."
..............................
Yeah, the new-hire in the mailroom... been at MFG for two weeks and still hasn't found the bathroom labled 'flunkies'... But MFG attorneys will show during the trial that the guy/girl was a master at vaporizing client funds.
This was the genesis of the distrust of commodities paper trading that we all banter on about, now it may be reality. Some smaller guys got burned, so ask yourself:"Does this lead to $100 gold price on paper, yet no physical available at any price?"
PMs are already flirting with backwardation again, as I understand it.
You can't make this shit up. beyone surrealism bitchez
It's beyond belief. Stealing is now legal.
Look on the brightside.
At least girls still have tits.
John Corzine, Blythe Masters, Jamie Dimon...the new rulers of the universe.
Our money is their money.
It's not stealing, it's just 'dipping in'...
which somewhere along the line makes a huge difference in court, or so I'm told...
'dipping in'... doesn't it mean having occasional no-commitment sexual relationship?
Which actually fits the case as such...
It used to. Now it just refers to stealing more than a thousand million dollars in one go...
Not sure how consensual it was for the many but there you go...
Ah, but this is how it starts, you see. To "Smaller guys", this may be everything they had. If no justice springs forth, I can't believe someone is not gonna finally get mad enough to put a hit out on Corzine, or, in an act of anger and frustration, do the deed personally. Why do you think Madoff was glad to go to jail?
According to an article in Newsweek a few weeks ago, Jon Corzine is already taking to wearing disguises and avoiding public appearances...
I could see Celente 'making a call,' as it were.
He. Is. Pissed.
This is why I will never understand finance. If Corzine and Blythe planned for weeks to take celetes' physical, I dont think they could pull it off. That youngster looked pretty mean in media appearances after the MF Global event.
Celente is a damn fool... He is on KWN every week preaching about the coming collapse, yet he had his money in MFG???
Celente should practice what he preaches.
Madoff went to jail but his son that "hung himself" didn't. Anyway, jail is not insurance against murder... guys in jail often get killed.
A guy in for life with no possibility of parole has nothing to lose by one more shanking... What's to happen, another life sentence?
It's a matter of principle and not return ON capital. Gtfo of the game, starve the beast and enjoy the little perks that life has to offer. What a joke...
Exter's Pyramid
Let this be a lesson to those gold bugs out there regularly endangering themselves and their fishing buddies in those capsize-prone flat-bottoms.
Vaporize it, like fine Acapulco.
Now you see it, now you don't.
The sooner scapegoats are brought out the less likely they will all become scapegoats.
Vaporization, bitches!
(Had to be said, didn't it?)
When the bankers do it, it's called 'revaporization'.
"Bankerization" They Bankerized it.
They've been irremedially decrediblized.
ROTFL!!!