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Intrade shut down due to financial probe
CNN Money ^

Posted on 03/11/2013 5:52:41 AM PDT by Perdogg

Online prediction betting site Intrade has shut down due to a probe of financial irregularities.

A notice on the site's home page gave few details of the probe, but said that it had halted trading on the site "due to circumstances recently discovered" that require further investigation and "may include financial irregularities."

(Excerpt) Read more at money.cnn.com ...


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1 posted on 03/11/2013 5:52:41 AM PDT by Perdogg
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To: Perdogg

"...bet they didn't see that coming"

2 posted on 03/11/2013 6:00:50 AM PDT by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: Perdogg

Did they pay someone to fiddle with the relay switch outside the SuperDome?


3 posted on 03/11/2013 6:07:58 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (*Catastrophic Anthropogenic Climate Alteration: The acronym explains the science.)
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To: Doogle

I heard on the radio yesterday that their website had closed down
Is that true ?


4 posted on 03/11/2013 6:08:35 AM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt (“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.” - Ronald Reagan)
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel; Perdogg

Truth be told, I think it was the NFL bigwigs that made that happen. Could you imagine the pay-out for the over/under on the spread?


5 posted on 03/11/2013 6:10:15 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (*Catastrophic Anthropogenic Climate Alteration: The acronym explains the science.)
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To: Doogle

I’m not a cat person but that photo is absolutely cute as can be.


6 posted on 03/11/2013 6:30:54 AM PDT by OldPossum
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To: OldPossum

relaaaaaaxed


7 posted on 03/11/2013 6:31:25 AM PDT by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-03-11/intrade-halts-service-on-possible-financial-irregularities-probe.html


8 posted on 03/11/2013 6:33:28 AM PDT by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: Doogle

That picture was taken in Istanbul.


9 posted on 03/11/2013 6:50:53 AM PDT by Perdogg (Sen Ted Cruz is my adoptive Senator, Rand Paul for President in 2016)
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To: Perdogg

he’s lucky he’s lasted that long...*LOL*


10 posted on 03/11/2013 6:58:25 AM PDT by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: Perdogg; Doogle

That’s interesting, I read somewhere that Kemal Ataturk had a lucid dream near the end of his life that he’d be reincarnated as a white cat, hence, white and white-ish cats pretty much have the run of the place.


11 posted on 03/11/2013 8:22:04 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Romney would have been worse, if you're a dumb ass.)
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To: SunkenCiv

that’s why he’s so relaxed....*smiles*


12 posted on 03/11/2013 8:45:27 AM PDT by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: Perdogg

You can still bet on the new pope at

http://www.paddypower.com/bet/novelty-betting/current-affairs/pope-betting#area=quicklinks


13 posted on 03/11/2013 8:48:45 AM PDT by nascarnation (Baraq's economic policy: trickle up poverty)
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To: Perdogg
"Probin' my financial irregularities."


14 posted on 03/11/2013 8:54:42 AM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy (Best WoT news at rantburg.com)
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