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Exhibit A: MF Global's Admission
It is not often that we see an official admission by a company to its regulators that oops, 'it just may have embezzled' hundreds of millions of dollars from its clients. Today, courtesy of the WSJ, we do, namely that of MF Global advising the SEC that it has "discovered a significant shortfall in its segregated funds account." Expect to see this revalation in countless investor lawsuits against the company. Also, expect to see all bonuses paid to MFG's employees the day before the company filed to be clawed back in the form of fraudulent conveyance lawsuits, so to any former MF workers: our advice is don't spend all that client money just yet. Incidentally, the primary SEC supervisor for MF Global is Michael Macchiaroli at macchiarolim@sec.gov - let's all take a minute to personally thank him for being on top of this whole bankruptcy like a hawk.
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Corzine= Perp Walk
Corzine=Next Treasury Secretary
Someone tell Joe Kerner at CNBC Squawk Box ,... the guy still believes there is no shortfall ... keep repeating it ... what advice should one expect from a former stock broker???
entertaining tv though ... kashkari hit it in the head ...
Joe is just dully boringly dimwitted at times. As in most. He's not a convincing tool.
Sorkiin however, is not oly a fucking tool, apologista for Wallawallastreet, but is an arrogant little prick, to boot.
Good thing boy Sorkin came along so Joe can assume the chimera of mature eklder statesman. Not.
Behold, Bevis and Butthead
(huh ha ha hha hahah ha ha ha ha hha aaa)
Hey Michael, know any good porn sites?
just wondering what you do not in your spare time...
So who was on the other side of this rape of the customers? They have some 'splainin' to do.
LOL- true, pretty fine line between the two....
Yep no perpwalk.
He knew the rules very well.
Well played, Corzine, well played.
But you are too radioactive for politics now.
Not that you care. You have untouchable millions in various trust-like instruments.
"When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for them selves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it" - Fredric Bastiat.
The PONZI continues!
Corzine, Stanford and Madoff cellmates?
Yes, as soon as they let Madoff and Stanford out.
I believe Corzine has a few friends...
Mr Macchiaroli? Hmmm
http://www.globalsecuritieswatch.org/Letter_from_Sovereign_Advisors_to_SEC_Chairman_and_Associate_Director
Bastiat is awesome...great quote.
that is a brilliant quote - thanks for posting
I am circulating my copy of The Law to people at work. Most cannot understand it, as they cannot comprehend that legalized plunder is morally wrong.
pods
Time for a pop quiz. Y'all remember the analogy section on the SATs, right?
Jerry Sandusky is to Joe Paterno as Jon Corzine is to:
A) Gary Gensler
B) Mary Shapiro
C) Eric Holder
D) Barack Obama
E) All of the above
OK, maybe that's too many proper names. Let's try it this way:
The Penn State locker room is to 10-year-old boys as the Chicago Mercantile Exchange is to:
A) Individual investors
B) Professional speculators
C) Commercial hedgers
D) Pension fund managers
E) All of the above
Students who unsure of the answers are invited to stay after school for extra "coaching" . . .
Just sent:
Mike,
Sorry to hear your job app for MF Global fell through.
Not to worry, I hear Jeffries is looking for bright regulators looking for part time work.
Please pass my best regards on to all the hard working folks at the SEC who NEVER replied to my two complaints and requests for investigations into fraudulent activity by companies I was ripped off by.
Have a nice day.
xoxo.
One of the 99.9999999999999999999999999999999999
I'm sure this guy will be busy:
http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2011/11/04/corzine-hires-criminal-attorney/#
"I can neither confirm nor deny..." doesn't work when you don't care about the half billion (give or take) that's missing.
an email for 600 million? at night
I think the segragation idea is revisionary. MF was just that leveraged.
It is always worse than they admit at first. It is always worse than you will ever know.
It was obvious what happened when margin requirements we lowered for MF customers. Every executive of every bank knows exactly what is going on, and that absolutely no one will be held accountable.
wtf it's only money, and there's no shortage of that, right?
taxpayers problem, whoever they are...
Can you imagine what would have happened if the real truth were acted on that all of MF Global customer accounts were drained to zero? All those guys would just walk away from their positions and leave the CME on the hook. The CME would have folded.
More like "he did it" from the way I see things.
The Castle Bravo H-bomb test is what the CFTC needs to sweep under the Washington DC rugs for what it did to the last standing fair game in Chicago. The hand reached up from NY Hell to grab and smear the last honest man's space.
So nice to have all of those SEC email addresses now.
Hell yeah! This will be fun.
Crank yankers...targets identified.....fire when ready.
Stay classy MF......"Genral Counsel"
I can see why they went under - because they have Genral instead of a General for a lawyer.
General state of confusion
What's a meer 600 mil? The market doesn't seem to care. Maybe that's why the market hasn't sold off since MF's collapse. People are figuring..well the firms are going to steal it anyway. I might as well put it in the market and have it stolen legitimately.
Mere is what you were searching for Doc. Meer is part of Kat.
Fat finger.
Why pay billions for something that's now going to be given away? I'm surprised the market isn't higher frankly...
Ha ha this will be fun!
I am going to send taunting emails with official sounding titles using big words so that they inadvertently open them.
Crank yankers...start your computers!
What a den of snakes...you'd think news like this blatant piracy on Wall St would send everyone scrambling to withdraw any money they have from the grasp of their claw hands, but apparently not. Calm as Hindu bulls,
It will all be clawed back and returned to customers eventually.
Bye bye bonus!
What planet are you from? Have you been awake for the past three years? The standard operating proceedure is: the firm collapses ,gets bail out money- large bonuses and the clients are fucked. Claw backs..that's a good one.
Everyone had to recheck their code books after all the clawbacks in the madoff case(s)... It's a really, really big deal and this is why people opt to not take their golden parachutes (coming back anyway). The trick is to ensure plausible deniability through the ordinary course of business/established norms and have quite a bit of time buffer between your payments and the ol' collapse.
It's easy to identify payments to individuals directly... it's vastly more difficult to identify payments to entities in which those individuals might hold minority interests. How deep anyone looks is simply a function of how much money is at stake and who it was that got screwed... my guess is we get a whole bunch of juicy tidbits out of this one... and discovery will take it to the core.
The neat part is, even if regulators are inept/apathetic, the civil side attorneys won't be.
or you might want to invest or structure your employment contracts through an offshore trust or company that can be shut down at the first sign of trouble...
End of the line...
The only way that's the end of the line is if there is not enough money in dispute to justify paying for discovery (and even then [bad] attorneys might still look).
The trick is to exercise all options/receive all payments as soon as they become available... your only defense is time because you never know when the thing is going to crumble.
In some very prominant recent cases an unnamed company thought it would be cute to have a "mothership" in one country and all of its satellites in other countries had no assets and "beamed up" all their profits to the mothership. (the logic being they would simply flip the bird to any creditors in the event of an adverse judgment). Well, needless to say, the triers of fact all thought this to be bullshit and imposed liability on the mothership for the actions of the satellites.
Rarely is someone ever clever enough to hide all traces... the trick is to be a big enough player to where you don't have to (i.e. you just change the laws).
"this time is different."
Clawbacks are unicorn poop. Lose the shovel, chump.
Fraud has become the accepted normalcy. Corzine finds an out through his political affiliations and some other people take the punishment.
O'Pardon coming in 3,2,1...
Note she didn't say we are looking for the money to be returned, it's looking into "circumstances". I am guessing that she wants to investigate and make sure it was stolen fair and square.
Were PWC being treated to stripper parties in the boardroom when they should have been auditing?
February 4, 2010
Mr. David A. Stawick
Secretary to the Commission
Commodity Futures Trading Commission
Dear Mr. Stawick:
MF Global Inc.1 (“MF Global”) and Newedge USA, LLC2 (“Newedge”) jointly submit these
comments regarding the petition of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (“CME”) that the
Commission issue an order under Section 4d of the Commodity Exchange Act that would permit
the CME and futures commission merchants clearing through the CME to commingle customer
funds used to margin, secure, or guarantee credit default swaps (“CDS”) cleared by the CME
with other funds held in the customer segregated account.
...
Conclusion
At this time, MF Global and Newedge are not satisfied that the
risks to futures customers’ funds and to our own guaranty deposits - risks we never signed up for
– may adequately be assessed or contained. Under all of these circumstances it is fundamentally
unfair to expect futures customers to be exposed to these risks. It is for all these reasons that MF
Global and Newedge – dynamic competitors in futures and other financial services – come
together to respectfully but strongly urge the Commission to deny the CME’s petition at this
time.
http://www.cftc.gov/stellent/groups/public/@requestsandactions/documents...
memo to Corzine wannabees:
when legal says "go ahead, stiff everybody, the blowback is manageable", they meant....everybody{but me}....it's in the fine print.
cough* JEF *cough
Jef closed yesterday at $11.11. odd start on 11-11-11
Im going to send an Email to MF Global something like-
'Atenshun! Seems we got's some assits missin, I caint seem to find me Lucky Charms'!
"Shortfall". Is that the new word for "Theft"? Jus tryin ta keep up here...
There's probably a line of cars right now at the Mercedes dealership asking if they take returns.
Well, Ferrarri did have a good quarter as pointed out by Tyler a few days back in one of those rare "Good News" posts.
I bet there are a few trying to return keys to them right now as well.
anybody want to register them for some serious spam on their email with this program?
http://spam-me.net/
Good thing us traders don't have to worry about that kind of stuff being done anywhere else.
Deleted.
MF = Majorly Fucked? Pass the popcorn.
MF = Missing Funds or maybe Misused Funds
SEC: "Do you know what the Federal penalty is for this behavior ?"
Corzine: "No"
SEC: "Well....it's probably pretty stiff.."
Yep, that's about as far as it will go.
'pretty stiff' good one, can be found on a porn site, right?
Actually pilfered it from this - perfect encapsulation of an SEC regulator/policeman:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LrFEbxWzXI&feature=related
In Federal Bankruptcy Court in downtown Manhattan on Tuesday, November 1, MF Global’s lawyers played down the missing money. Ken Ziman, one of the lawyers, said in the firm’s first hearing that banks or clearinghouses had been slow to produce the money.
“To the best knowledge of management, there is no shortfall,” Mr. Ziman said.
But regulators on Tuesday still could not locate the customer money, and the firm had not accounted for it.
I am sure Mr Macchiaroli was busy surfing porn, instead of actually doing his fucking JOB!
I thought JPM found it in one of their accounts...or was that Kadafi´s money...
let us now have a moment of silence to remember and show our respect for those who have fallen and those who are still alive and members of the federal reserve mercenary armies...............
Their general counsel can't spell general. Always an indication of larger carelessness. Fucking priceless.
previous font on headlines was better
Corzine and associates busy greasing palms and making backroom deals. SEC gets more porn sites and subscription renewels to keep them busy surfing the web. Next, a trial show for the public (to make them think the SEC and justice is working) while they all sit back laugh at what they got away with. A few MF global and other sacrificial lambs placed on the alter.
All is well in Euro land. The Dax is above 6,000 again. Time to hop into the slaughterhouse sheep.
Thank You for making me more ashamed of the industry I work in.
Thank you for your role in eliminating many carers and companies of friends of mine.
Thank you for further undermining my trust in the financial system.
At last but not least, thank you for reinforcing that government employees are mostly incompetent wastes of my tax dollars!
They will identify a "rogue trader"
Anyone surprised? Crime does pay, and we will rally above 12000 today, now were is that damn worn out hat?
I just sent Mr. M a nice note of thanks. If I disappear down an oil drum that is buried in Giants Stadium I will say Hi! to Jimmy Hoffa for everybody.
http://vegasxau.blogspot.com
So admitting fraud and theft supposedly dimisses the crime? I don't think so.. if this was China, and I think its time we take up some of t he law breaking penalties, corzine would be wondering why he doesn't feel his toes anymore..
He's a major campaign fund-raiser for Obama. The ones not feeling their toes are his ex-clients.
Are you trying to say there is no government corruption in China? Good one!
No he is not.
But, occasionally, corrupt officials get their organs sent to thailand and israel.
Corzine needs a bunk next to Madoff. Anything less will serve as evidence that our society is no longer a constitutional republic based on Rule of Law. Should they fail to deliver swift and appropriate justice through criminal prosecution (not some "rogue" trader), we will know that Corzine acted with impunity on behalf of the US Govt and the Federal Reserve to intervene in financial markets by massively leveraging customer accounts as collateral for market activity. Oligarchy or Democratic Republic? We will see.
I think you should have given up the republic ghost probably at least a century ago...
This stands fiduciary responsibility on its head.
If there are no criminal prosecutions, the US commodities markets are dead. It's that simple.
You're a little late to the party. Pssst... all markets are dead, and the corpses are animated with puppet strings.
Corzine is a past governor, retired Senator, and close friend to the president. The worst that will happen to him is he will have to practice looking concilliatory for the cameras.
And, its gone!
the criminal elite are so openly corrupt, I just can't wait to vote in 2012 for the candidate that the MSM tells me is the best..Obuma Corzine- Romney Paterno..which to choose which to choose?
Ron Paul better run as third party or no need to vote
The email is the final page to this filing:
http://www.cftc.gov/ucm/groups/public/@newsroom/documents/file/supportofmotion110211.pdf
She was also here:
"Oh, you'll never guess what I DISCOVERED.
We've just pinched a trillion or so of our clients money, seriously, I know, I just DISCOVERED it, I know,
Excuse me waiter, could I have another one of those lavender scones".
FUCKSHITES.
THE REASON PEOPLE ARE SHOCKED:
********************************
Most Americans still don’t get it!
America has ALREADY been overthrown!
This country has been invaded and taken over by international bankers, who have corrupted every aspect of our government.
The US Federal Government is NO LONGER an American gov’t. It is an Enemy Force Of Occupation that has camouflaged its overthrow of the US Gov’t.
Their design was simple: subvert, subjugate, extract wealth, exterminate.
Essentially this is the largest POW Camp in the world and we are all prisoners and potential disrupters, hence the Dep’t Of Homeland Security (which is actually Homeland Gestapo) has labeled Americans who still think and act like this is the USA and “resist” the occupation as…….. “terrorists.”
Since we ARE technically POW’s, then the Law Of War and the Geneva Convention should apply, and the principles for ALL POW’S to observe is:
It is the Duty of all POW’s to RESIST our captors by every means possible.
To disrupt their designs and actions by any and all means.
To REFUSE to cooperate in any way.
To Refuse any/all special treatment.
To provide NO information expect name, rank, serial number (SS #)
To create as much difficulty as possible to cause the greatest use of personnel and assets
so as to reduce their capacity to wage warfare elsewhere on us.
For some reason I was naive enough to think the SEC would be sitting in the CFO's office with Jon Corzine asking them to show them where the mother fucking money is. I guess that's not how it works, you just wait for them to shoot you an email if it suits them and if they can "figure out" what happened.
This country is doomed.
for nacho libre investors, "it's time to go pro"...
What was the incompetent Big 4 auditor doing? Dreamin of Enron?
Sandusky > Corzine
Macchiaroli will be a hot new pasta dish @ all the SEC and some blogs
b4 we are fini'd snoozin off the turkey, BiCheZ!
Michael Macchiaroli has quite a history of incompetance and regulatory enforcement failure. See this:
http://www.globalsecuritieswatch.org/Letter_from_Sovereign_Advisors_to_SEC_Chairman_and_Associate_Director
... which resulted in this:
http://www.globalsecuritieswatch.org/DOJ_Antitrust_Complaint
This will end in one of 2 ways:
1. 99% rise up and hang everyone involved in banking.
2. Same 99% end up in bondage 1984 style.
Don't tell me Ms. Ferber can't spell "general".
Don't tell me Ms. Ferber can't spell "general".