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Corzine Resigns From MF Global
Wall Street Journal ^

Posted on 11/04/2011 5:39:24 AM PDT by Sub-Driver

Corzine Resigns From MF Global By DOW JONES NEWSWIRES

MF Global Holdings Ltd. said Chief Executive Jon Corzine had resigned all posts with the firm and won't seek severance payments.

Bradley I. Abelow, the company's president, and Edward L. Goldberg, the lead director, will retain their posts, MF Global said, confirming a report on CNBC.

The broker-dealer filed for bankruptcy protection on Monday amid questions about its bookkeeping and whether it had properly segregated customer funds.

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To: scooby321

“Damn he was that close to being Obama’s Treasury Secretary”

If he did the headline would read Ponzi schemer replaces tax cheat as Treasury secretary


21 posted on 11/04/2011 7:00:19 AM PDT by chuckee
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To: Sub-Driver

Prior to taking over MF Global, Corzine ran Goldman Sachs & Co, and was a senator and governor of New Jersey.

Priceless.


22 posted on 11/04/2011 7:02:51 AM PDT by mandaladon (PalinGenesis)
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To: mandaladon

Bradley I. Abelow, the company’s president, was Corzine’s chief of staff when Corzine was Governor of NJ. Corzine previously had appointed him Treasurer of NJ.


23 posted on 11/04/2011 7:06:05 AM PDT by PieterCasparzen (We need to fix things ourselves)
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To: Sub-Driver

Yoo-hoo...Politico?


24 posted on 11/04/2011 7:10:01 AM PDT by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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To: bray

Corzine will soon be leading the “Occupy Jail Cells” bunch


25 posted on 11/04/2011 7:37:57 AM PDT by tennmountainman
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To: Sub-Driver

Prison is where he belongs. Yet he won’t get it. They will let him walk.


26 posted on 11/04/2011 8:44:15 AM PDT by ColdOne (I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11)
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To: mandaladon
Joined at the hip..

Priceless. ;-)


27 posted on 11/04/2011 9:06:41 AM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard .. Obama: Epic Fail or Bust!!!)
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To: Sub-Driver

Always suspected Corzine was scum. I thought his wealth was amassed as “timer” on Wall Street. Looks like he is an outright thief as well.

The really sad part is the NJ voters who put this bum in office as NJ Gov. will never own up to their grossly poor judgement.

Having fled NJ in Sept. 2010 I no longer am burdened with having to attempt to live under Demrat/RINO regimes. Can’t believe how much more free the air is in SC. Has a few problems, but the people here are dedicated to the Constitution and our God-given inalien rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.


28 posted on 11/04/2011 9:33:13 AM PDT by dools0007world
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To: Zuben Elgenubi
"Governors go to jail sometimes."

But he's also a former Senator. They can get away with murder. Literally.

29 posted on 11/04/2011 9:35:40 AM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: M1903A1
Yo Da Man.
Or lady. (:-
Thanks.
30 posted on 11/04/2011 9:46:58 AM PDT by DeaconRed (My Hat Don't Hang on the same Nail to Long. . . . . . . . .)
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To: Sub-Driver

Just another corrupt ‘RAT politician and Obama campaign donor..nothing to see here...keep it moving!


31 posted on 11/04/2011 11:13:12 AM PDT by Nat Turner (I can see NOVEMBER 2012 from my house....)
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To: Sub-Driver

Now that’s there nothing left to steal....


32 posted on 11/04/2011 11:14:11 AM PDT by Tzimisce (Never forget that the American Revolution began when the British tried to disarm the colonists.)
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To: Nat Turner


See, what I mean!

33 posted on 11/04/2011 11:16:40 AM PDT by Nat Turner (I can see NOVEMBER 2012 from my house....)
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To: Sub-Driver
CFTC: MF Clients Will Not Be Bailed Out
Posted by Ann Barnhardt - November 3, AD 2011 11:34 AM MST
It's pretty much official. MF clients who have had their money stolen will get absolutely no relief from the Federal Government. The propaganda line they are using is that the MF theft of client funds represents “the freedom to fail”. Yes, that's right. The CFTC and Obama regime are going to wash their hands of the entire thing - even though MF’s audit was under the jurisdiction of the CFTC - and then point to the fact that the government did not intervene on behalf of the clients as PROOF of their “dedication to free market capitalism”.
Full citation here.

So Corzine took a massive suicidal position on European PIIG bonds with, I'm assuming, the big banks as the counter-party.

And let's be crystal clear on one thing: that son of a bitch Corzine knew EXACTLY what he was doing. This isn't a case of “stupid”. This is stone-cold malice aforethought.

When the MF position got bad, Corzine stole the cash in the segregated MF customer accounts and sent it to the big banks, which will now send a cut to Obama. And the CFTC, who, along with the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, were the responsible regulatory bodies, is now calling this a simple case of firm failure and a shining example of capitalism.

THIS coming from the same Obama regime who has been handing out $500 million dollar government “loans” right and left to fake solar companies set up by political cronies that they KNEW would fail, were set up to fail, and were purely a means to loot the United States Treasury. The gall of these Marxist scumbags to turn around and lecture anyone on capitalism and “freedom to fail” is beyond the pale. It's just evil. That's what it is. It's evil incarnate.

Up next: Look for all MF clients to be branded and vilified by the Obama regime and the media as uber-wealthy “1%” greedy fat-cats who deserved to lose their money. After all, only evil, greedy billionaires trade futures.

Yeah, like my friend in Abilene, Texas who works his butt off as an cattle order buyer. Or my friend in Meade, KS who backgrounds feeder cattle. Yeah. They're “billionaires” who deserve to have their money stolen.

34 posted on 11/04/2011 1:28:30 PM PDT by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: dools0007world

Inalien should have read inaliable. Sorry.


35 posted on 11/04/2011 2:30:23 PM PDT by dools0007world
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To: Sub-Driver

Another fine product of the garden state gone full Soprano.


36 posted on 11/04/2011 5:35:55 PM PDT by Del Rapier
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To: Sub-Driver
No frog march? Where's the OWS crowd??????
as w/ all Criminal(s)...."TAKE THE $$$$ & RUN!"....
notice all the 'rats, abandoning the (Garbage Barge) U.S.S. OBlahblah.

37 posted on 11/05/2011 10:55:46 AM PDT by skinkinthegrass (I can take tomorrow, spend it all today. Who can take your income, tax it all away. Obama Man can. :)
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