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Who Gave Permission To A Bankrupt MF Global To Sell Italian Bonds To JPM At A 5% Discount To Market Value?
We already knew previously that shortly after it filed for bankruptcy, George Soros bought $2 billion in Italian bonds from the bankrupt MF Global. One thing we did not know was the terms of the purchase. Today, the WSJ has disclosed another facet of the bankruptcy which like Lehman will expose gigabytes of dirt on the corrupt US financial system. Namely, that after liquidating, MF sold Italian bonds - the culprit that ultimately led to the bank's bankruptcy - to none other than JP Morgan and "one large hedge fund."So far so good. Where it gets disturbing is that as the WSJ discloses, "buyers paid about 89 cents on the dollar for the Italian bonds, compared with a market price of about 94 cents at the time, according to the trader who bought them...Today, those bonds trade at more than 96 cents, according to Tradeweb." Our question is first, why did the bankrupt MF Global estate proceed to unload post-filing assets and under whose discretion: after all the company had entered bankruptcy, and it is up to the estate, which includes bondholders and other stakeholders to determine what assets and under what conditions, can be liquidated. Did MF Global believe that the same exemption from the law that it apparently thought was applicable to its pre-petition, was also valid under bankruptcy? Because if the firm did not get prior-permission form a bankruptcy judge to liquidate these assets, this is an act far worse than commingling and even the firesale of Lehman's US Brokerage to Barclays for pennies on the dollar - this is flaunting bankruptcy law front and center.
Secondly, and perhaps just as important, who on the estate agreed to give JPM a 5% explicit discount to what the article notes was a fair price that is 5% higher and which by definition would have had bidders at that price. We hope someone in the Senate will take a quick look at this note, and the related WSJ article, and ask Messrs Corzine et al to provide some much needed clarity on this topic.
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Will a couple of "i'm sorry" and "I'm not an expert on bankruptcy law" make this all go away? Because I know just the CEO to slick back his hair and arrogantly blow hot air up your ass
The corruption runs deep, they have infiltrated almost every element of governement, the day will come although where they are held accountable for what they have done. Sadly I believe it is still a few years away.
http://silverliberationarmy.blogspot.com/
There's a word for misappropriating funds from a company (or estate) you work for: EMBEZZLEMENT.
That's what this is. Plain and simple EMBEZZLEMENT.
The co-mingling funds argument absolutely does not stand up post-bankruptcy. This was theft.
Please, please. Don't mix up laws written for serfs and laws written for those who have ascended.
Simple "I am sorry" is maximum sentence that those holy beings should be punished with.
// who gave permission ..... ? //
This is Wall Street. They are doing God's work and they are above petty things like government and rule of law. They can plead the "FIF" and get away with murder. All they need to make sure is the current president's coffers is flush with election dollahs.
I've listened to a good amount of these hearings, and I'm surprised none of the Senators ask them how many people in the company would even have the ability to transfer that much money in client funds. It can't be that big of a list.
i know for a FACT that the night janitor transfered $5bil from an account.....corzine is innocent!
The way this is being whitwashed and delayed, and the fact that real crimes aren't being seriously investigated, I don't even think it's going to get to the point where we get the "few bad apples" excuse. It won't even be necessary.
As Captain Jack Sparrow would say "I'm having a thought Here!"
"What if they did a clawback on the purchase of the Italian bonds from JPM at a fair market value of say 96 cents!
Sounds Fair to me."
And Barbossa says "Ah But Jack thats what lost ye yer money in the first place.
Companies are easier to steal from when their dead!"
Fraudulent Conveyance: a transfer of property that is made to swindle, hinder, or delay a creditor, or to put such property beyond his or her reach.
Claw it back, baby. Claw the muther fucker back.
Our financial system is so corrupt and dysfunctional that the only way to fix it is to let it all implode and rebuild it again.
Ask Corzine - why? It'll just be more of the Clinton defense - don't remember, can't recall. Hillary and Billary taught all these radical left wing Democrats how it's done.
If he knows jack shit, you must acquit!
permission? we don't need no stinkin permission.
Tyler et. al allow me to obvious in the face of general tonal naïveté of this article: the entire bond market operates under these preferential discounts -- this is how bond dealers function to date and the only difference here is there was a "seeming" dump in the face of insolvency. The keyword "dump" because if you tracked any bond dealer you'd see these kinds of "discounts" all day every day akin to congress legally insider trading. The profits come as insider multi-tiered discounts between "insider" traders and then end-purchaser ultimately scavenges and hopefully justifies the price differentials and junk bond insolvent product. But WTF do i know?
If I hear that the money went to pay off folks who had funds on account with them that were co-mingled, I could at least understand it, they are trying to pay back what they should, first. Other wise NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO!
Money for nothing! And at that is some serious money!
Bernanke.
if it was after BK filing and w/o court permission it is subject to being set aside and or the subject of contempt
Hell hath no fury like a scorned Federal judge . . . especially if it's a she.
im so fking numb to the corruption. The corrupt politicians are going to tell the corrupt banksters what to do. WTF is going on
Clawback, bitchez!
Was he asked about this?
300 million bitchez
Small haircut. Nothing to see here. Move along.
Exactly - the salesforce covering MFG realized there would be only limited business going forward and, well, they need to hit their revenue targets.
I remember an incident with one of the client coverage guys on a very similar entity which collapsed owing to insolvency issues. He laughed as he told me how he'd taken a huge margin for the unwinds and the client had been angry but "there was nothing he could do" - this is the ugly truth about the way it works and the unethical nature of investment banks...
AND ITS GONE BITCH! SUCK IT!
Hello ma'am how may i help you today?
No rule of law what-so-ever.
Banana Republic of America.
I will call it Costaguana. Man, a banana republic is normal. A free republic, equal protection under the law, upholding of contracts, that is abnormal. It was fun while it lasted.
Might I presume that this goes to the highest levels of government. Not much of a stretch is it? Would not this be called quid pro quo until you get called on it and then it's called RICO.
The TRIBE led by the Scumbag Soros and JP Morgan insider Dimon do whatever the fuck they want and if you dont like it than tough shit.
So... I generated a Scumbag Soros meme template, but cannot get it captioned due to an error message.
Here's the pic
http://memegenerator.net/Scumbag-Soros/caption#
My caption:
BUYS BONDS FROM MF GLOBAL (top)
5% BELOW RETAIL (bottom)
But alas, my memegenerator fu is weak. :( (as are my MS Paint skillz)
Corzine knows nothing! NADA.
Just add Corzine and Soros' name to the mix and the "GOP" finally gets it's panties in a bunch over the greatest financial scandal in the history of the world... the CFTC under Wendy Graham, a NEOCON btw. and Rubin and Summers and Gensler- all part of this crime spree! Where was the GOP then? What did they think was gonna happen when you condone a crime? It keeps happening! This is partisan politics stalling necessary justice to return any integrity to the U.S. markets and a HUGE obstacle to economic recovery. Bush and his clique condoned this scandal along with the S&L Crisis. I'm NOT condoning Obama and Corzine, but the GOP and the Clinton crew needs to own up here as well. Playing politics is for dummies.
The courts have been doing nothing since 2003 (and before) about these crimes. Why would Soros miss out?
http://www.dandodiary.com/ 2010/06/articles/subprime-litigation/an-updated-analysis-of-subprime-securities-suit-dismissal-motions/
http://www.dandodiary.com/2008/06/articles/subprime-litigation/the-list-subprime-lawsuit-dismissals-and-denials/index.html
http://www.skadden.com/content/Publications/Publications1962_0.pdf
***On Judge Levine's first week on the job, nearly twenty years ago, he came into my office and stated that he had promised Wendy Gramm, then Chairwoman of the Commission, that we would never rule in a complainant's favor.***
A review of his rulings will confirm that he has fulfilled his vow. Judge Levine, in the cynical guise of enforcing the rules, forces pro se complaints to run a hostile procedural gauntlet until they lose hope, and either withdraw their complaint or settle for a pittance, regardless of the merits of the case"***
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/19/AR2010101907216.html
now THAT has style: to buy bonds of bankrupt state from a bankrupt company with crony discount...
ACtiually - If true, they buyer may not "own" the bonds. Unless of cousre it is Soros then breaking the rules will not matter.
That's good since Soros could use the discount savings to further his pro-America agenda no doubt.
US suspending production $1 coins
Any thoughts?
Tyler put up a thread on this.
Congress fails to understand the market. Go figure.
It is called "flipping" in the Street. A quick profit for your friends and family at Christmas
MF Clients better stock up on KY...lots of it.
Fraudulent conveyance?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraudulent_conveyance
if story is true than trade did not happen. Bankruptcy judge will rip itup
And that's where the so-called good collateral winds up, like in 3 card monte, you think you know where the money is but it isn't until laws are broken, and shady back door deals are made that you find out that the money was literally stolen via liquidating sales.
This should implicate many people who should go to jail for outright theft, fraud, etc. How far it goes and how much justice will be served will be a function of how much ignorance there is amongst the general public.
The fed, banks, prime brokers, central banks, and broker dealers have engaged in some serious fraud that if genocidal policies like further stimulus (which will do nothing to stem the reversion to the mean in asset prices) won't do them in, this certainly will.
no QE, no QE, no QE.
"- this is flaunting bankruptcy law front and center."
These are bankers, the law doesn't apply to them.
Really, what strikes me awfully hard, is that just before giving testimony, Corzine is asked to raise his hand and swear an oath to tell the "whole truth". Farce, and the I never meant to hurt anyone or do anything illegal is completely lame. Why doesn't he just tell the most truth and say, "I thought I could get away with it."
and, please... when will some young Congressional aide walk through the scene and knock over that idiotic "honorable" sign???
In today's day and age, Honorable = Despicable
Did you note how one of the senators said "Mr. Corzine ... excuse me, Governor Corzine."
Dick fuld said the same thing.
They get away with it. So why deviate from the program.
The future Treasury Secretary's reputation is in tatters. Alas he still has half a billion dollars, and lots of political friends.
"...still has half a billion dollars, and lots of political friends."
liz_Z, you're not teasing us w/ a possible re-make of The Martha Stewart Story, now, are you?
He's off to see the wizard, the wonderful wizard of OZ
Surely Soros will eventually take over the SEC or the Federal Reserve...a profit of $130,000,000 not bad & considering the fact that the bankruptcy administrator & the clients who have had their funds stolen OBVIOUSLY DO NOT NEED THE MONEY as MUCH AS MR. Soros...I formerly PROCLAIM THAT I MUST BE A DRONE & hereby request to be flown over WESTERN AFGHANISTAN which is code for IRAN....I am so tired of the corruption...it is absolutely shameless
Let's all get this information to the Senate Agriculture Committee. It will then be on them if they don't pursue it. Legal corruption is despicable. Illegal corruption is inexcusable.
My Friend .. dont ask such silly questions .. sorry
What You document is HOW the ANGLOSAXON FINANCIAL SHARKS OPERATE .. and have been operating for all the time ..I have been informed ! I just didnt really know it ..precisely .. before NOW ... like so many other good people .. also in the US !
.. As when Charles de Gaulle called the BLUFF of the US regarding .. redeemability of the DOLLAR for GOLD ... at that time by ANGLOSAXON MEDIA portrayed as almost a transformation of FRANCE into a TRAITOR ,,an aspiring COMMUNIST STATE .. You see .. my MEMORY hasnt totally failed me ... YET !
And what You describe is exactely ... what WE ... who can THINK ..in EUROPE .. want to put an END to .
That process is DIFFICULT , because we have POWERFUL ENEMIES ... who use every DIRTY TRICK they can come up with .. to avoid taking the consequences of their ill deeds.
But ..it will be over my dead body and many other good people with me .. if we will let them get away with that in perpetuity.... and I ... and others have STAMINA .. even when it looks impossible ........TRUST ME !
we all know the globalists don't pay taxes. they collect taxes from the 99%, 'cause we let them! enough is enough people! global warming is a scam to collect even more taxes! i didn't know that God created earth, just to hand it over to satan's followers! WAKE UP PEOPLE! DO NOT PAY YOUR TAXES, GET YOUR MONEY OUT OF THE SYSTEM NOW!!!!
p.s.- hey globalists! you know what you'll be doing in hell? you'll be sucking shit thru a straw! (heavenly angels told me!)
Let me guess. The delta between .94 and .89 on the deal adds up to $1.2 Billion.
He's not so much picking up nickels in front of the steam-roller, as he is picking them up with it, squishing all of the little people as he goes.
JAIL TIME, BICHEZ!!!
forget about clawback, Jamie Dimon needs a claw to his skull
We are The Financial Elite.
And we'll do whatever the fuck we want.
CORRUPTIO OPTIMI PESSIMA. The corruption of the best is worst. --Roman proverb [a fish starts smelling from its head]
I really want to be locked in a room with the three MFG stooges. Give me 5 minutes. And when you open the door turf in that arrogant cunt Dimon. I want him even more.
From the beginning, the MF Global failure is institutionalized embezzlement. If the investigation is a whitewash, silence is consent. Congress and the regulatory agencies would be complicit in the theft, by inaction and by dereliction of duty.
http://georgesblogforum.wordpress.com/2011/11/02/the-daily-climb-2/
Bankruptcy trustees seem to be unable to sell cash for par so it is no surprise that there was a discount to market in the sale of a liquid asset.
They were just doing god's work.
There is no spoon.
Yeah, I know. Still, the nothing points to something.
It's "flout" the law not "flaunt" the law!!!
As in JP Morgan violating the law vs JP Morgan running around shouting "Look, look, isn't my law beautiful!"
"Did MF Global believe that the same exemption from the law that it apparently thought was applicable to its pre-petition, was also valid under bankruptcy?"
Anyone who felt they had zero fiduciary duty (trust) regarding client accounts to use for their own personal bets would think the same about contract and bankruptcy law.
Perhaps he thought he was still a governor, who was still entrusted with special powers, so he continued to loot at will and make up the law as he went along to cover it up...lol.
Criminal Gangs of New York is what we're dealing with here.
It's time the Demon was put behind bars
The Demon and the Don need to be put behind bars without further ado