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Corzine 'stunned' that MF Global couldn't find missing funds
LA Times Blog ^ | December 8, 2011 | 11:40 am | None stated

Posted on 12/08/2011 7:05:09 PM PST by Texas Fossil

As the first former U.S. senator to be subpoenaed by Congress in more than a century, Jon Corzine testified Thursday about the “last chaotic days” of MF Global, the trading firm that declared bankruptcy under his watch.

Corzine said he was “stunned” to learn that the firm could not locate hundreds of millions of dollars in client money in the days before the firm’s collapse, and said he had no idea where the money had gone.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: corzine; funds; missing; mrglobal
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From other articles about skirting U.S. laws concerning regulation of derivatives by using subsidiaries in the U.K. nothing he said was credible.

The big question is the collateral damage to the world financial institutions. Some of the "too big to Fail" U.S. Banks are very very heavy with derivatives.

Are we being played into the hands of the Globalists? Probably.

1 posted on 12/08/2011 7:05:21 PM PST by Texas Fossil
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To: Texas Fossil

He was shocked!-—SHOCKED!— to discover that the funds were missing!


2 posted on 12/08/2011 7:08:17 PM PST by FrdmLvr (culture, language, borders)
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To: Texas Fossil

He was shocked!-—SHOCKED!— to discover that the funds were missing!


3 posted on 12/08/2011 7:08:21 PM PST by FrdmLvr (culture, language, borders)
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To: Texas Fossil

The elites that rule us really do believe we are incredibly stupid and then something like this comes along to prove them right. How did they get in charge to begin with — we let them.


4 posted on 12/08/2011 7:09:46 PM PST by JimSEA (The future ain't what it used to be.)
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To: Texas Fossil

Corzine has always been recognized as the crook he was and is. The question is: who got the money, and what country will Corzine retire in to enjoy the money he took? Just another product of the criminal left.


5 posted on 12/08/2011 7:09:46 PM PST by EagleUSA
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To: Texas Fossil

Shazaam!


6 posted on 12/08/2011 7:09:59 PM PST by billorites (freepo ergo sum)
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To: Texas Fossil

Spoken like a corrupt Senator with other people’s money.


7 posted on 12/08/2011 7:12:12 PM PST by BigSkyFreeper (You have entered an invalid birthday)
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To: Texas Fossil

Has anyone audited Goldman since he left to see if he had a similar management style there?


8 posted on 12/08/2011 7:13:23 PM PST by PAR35
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To: Texas Fossil

Not to worry Jon. I’m sure it will turn up in the form of off-shore bank accounts and anonymous donations to the DNC.


9 posted on 12/08/2011 7:13:28 PM PST by Tench_Coxe
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To: Texas Fossil

Why is this being investigated by the AG Committee?


10 posted on 12/08/2011 7:14:27 PM PST by csmusaret (The only borders Obama has closed is a bookstore.)
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To: billorites; FrdmLvr; EagleUSA; JimSEA

This one will not simply “blow over”. It is too big and too brazen. and Corzine is too well connected to avoid being slammed. And this is an election year. Very bad signs.

When investors/traders/commodities hedgers take a loss of 1.2 Billion Dollars it is a serious matter.

Corzine is simply lying.

NOW, who is the real force behind this debacle? My money says the Globalists intend to destroy the Global monetary system so they can gain total control. Sound tinfoil hat? I don’t think so.


11 posted on 12/08/2011 7:19:41 PM PST by Texas Fossil (Government, even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one)
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Did he look under the couch cushions? Under the mattress? I mean the money has to be somewhere. I found a couple of bucks in change after a party in my couch, did he check his?


12 posted on 12/08/2011 7:22:25 PM PST by SkyDancer ("If You Want To Learn To Love Better, You Should Start With A Friend Who You Hate")
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He knew, of course he knew. This article might be close to what was going on.

MF Global and the great Wall St re-hypothecation scandal

"Up until now the assumption has been that the funds missing had been misappropriated by MF Global as it desperately sought to avoid bankruptcy.

Sadly, the truth is likely to be that MF Global took advantage of an asymmetry in brokerage borrowing rules that allow firms to legally use client money to buy assets in their own name - a legal loophole that may mean that MF Global clients never get their money back. "

13 posted on 12/08/2011 7:23:06 PM PST by Vince Ferrer
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If, suppose, a lien for about $1.2 billion was placed on his money (and I’m pretty sure that’s most of his net worth) I think he would get a whole lot less stunned and a lot of the corruption surrounding Wall Street would also suddenly become less stunned.


14 posted on 12/08/2011 7:23:42 PM PST by Attention Surplus Disorder (Gun store gift certificate. An idea whose time has come.)
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“I never intended to break any rules,” Corzine said when asked whether he had ever authorized a transfer of customer funds from segregated accounts.

What a liar! They should have put the handcuffs on him right them and there and frogmarched him to jail.

"I never intended"; "I don't know"; "I don't understand"--then how the heck did you amass a fortune of $ 500 million at Goldman Sachs?

This is a Wall St. insider, former Senator, and forme Governor of a State--and he doesn't know how this happened?

He's a plunderer, straight up. Book him, Danno.

15 posted on 12/08/2011 7:24:18 PM PST by exit82 (Democrats are the enemies of freedom. We have ideas-the Dems only have ideology.)
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Why is this being investigated by the AG Committee?

MF Global was a commodities trading company. Who unknown to many of their commodities customers were extremely heavy in the derivatives market. (much more speculative) At this point it seems many of the "customers" who lost money were AG producers who hedged their livestock and crops. The fraud was much much bigger than that.

16 posted on 12/08/2011 7:25:56 PM PST by Texas Fossil (Government, even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one)
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he was stunned... i'll be even MORE shocked if it's ever found
17 posted on 12/08/2011 7:35:35 PM PST by Chode (American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: Texas Fossil

The very instant he said “I DON’T KNOW” they should have put the CUFFS on him and led him away.


18 posted on 12/08/2011 7:39:29 PM PST by eyeamok
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To: Texas Fossil

I’m even more shocked that anyone with half the sense of Slow Joe would invest their money with him! The guy was, is and will always be a crook with no morals, scruples, ethics, etc.


19 posted on 12/08/2011 7:43:49 PM PST by RetiredTexasVet (There's a pill for just about everything ... except stupid!)
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It is absolutely staggering just how much wealth has been lost in three years time.
20 posted on 12/08/2011 7:44:24 PM PST by Michael Barnes (Obamaa+ Downgrade)
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