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Jon Corzine Will Not Only Not Face Prosectuion, But May Be Launching A Hedge Fund Imminently
In what should be the biggst non-news of the day, the NYT is reporting that not only will Jon Corzine not face any criminal prosecution for vaporizing hundreds of millions in client money (which subsequently condensed in the JPM middle office), but will in fact be launching ... wait for it... a hedge fund. "A criminal investigation into the collapse of the brokerage firm MF Global and the disappearance of about $1 billion in customer money is now heading into its final stage without charges expected against any top executives. After 10 months of stitching together evidence on the firm’s demise, criminal investigators are concluding that chaos and porous risk controls at the firm, rather than fraud, allowed the money to disappear, according to people involved in the case." And algos... And glitches... And faulty software installs... And some junior person who has long since left the company... and, and, and, lots and lots of passive voice... Because in the Banana republic of the crave, no bundles can ever go to jail, no matter how heinous the crime, which is not to say other places are better: in Thailand you shoot your secretary in the stomach during dinner with an Uzi and you don't even pay a $600 fine. But at least it puts things in perspective. So what is next in store for this former man of power? "Mr. Corzine, in a bid to rebuild his image and engage his passion for trading, is weighing whether to start a hedge fund, according to people with knowledge of his plans. He is currently trading with his family’s wealth. If he is successful as a hedge fund manager, it would be the latest career comeback for a man who was ousted from both the top seat at Goldman Sachs and the New Jersey governor’s mansion." So will Jon will be buying Italian bonds? We don't know. Ask him yourself.
Of course, the question remains: instead of launching Corzined LP with all those superfluous costs to cover such unnecessary items as such as legal and compliance, just fire away with a 100x levered ETF buying only Italian bonds with a ticker VPRZ.
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Somebody with terminal cancer or nothing to lose: please put a bullet between Corzine's guy's eyes so we can all have the sense of a modicum of justice being served.
Oh, and one for Jamie Diamond, too, of course.
LOL! <--- That's what the article title made me do.
Absolute corruption!
When are you Americans going to start hanging these corrupt treasonous fuckers from the gallows on the National Mall, don't forget they've bought a billion rounds of ammo for you!
Did the victims like Gerald Celente get any of their money back? Whats the status of the missing funds?
America is done because we are either too stupid to know or too lazy to care. I was about to open the window and scream "I am not going to take it any more" but decided to turn on the TV instead.