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1 posted on 12/29/2011 9:16:39 AM PST by Smokeyblue
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MF Global chief missing $1.2B is financial adviser to EPA

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/dec/27/mf-global-chief-missing-12b-financial-adviser-epa/

During two days of recent congressional hearings into how as much as $1.2 billion disappeared from MF Global customer accounts, the chief operating officer of the imploding investment firm responded again and again that he did not know.

Yet as the House and Senate interrogated Bradley I. Abelow and other top executives at MF Global Holdings Ltd., lawmakers did not mention Mr. Abelow’s role as a financial adviser for the Environmental Protection Agency, which as of Tuesday listed him as the chairman of its financial advisory board.

Even as he finds himself the public face of a bankruptcy and admitted to lawmakers that he had no idea how client funds disappeared, Congress and the administration have voiced no public concern about Mr. Abelow’s role advising the $8.6 billion government agency on its finances.


2 posted on 12/29/2011 9:17:59 AM PST by Smokeyblue
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Why do I not find this to be surprising?


3 posted on 12/29/2011 9:19:54 AM PST by Farmer Dean (stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
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To: Smokeyblue

UN FREAKING BELIVEABLE


5 posted on 12/29/2011 9:21:27 AM PST by DeaconRed (The $4M Vacation MUST be exposed everyday. It is outrageous)
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To: Smokeyblue

As Rush would say:
“Folks this is too easy - having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have....”

Liberals write their own copy for us.


6 posted on 12/29/2011 9:21:48 AM PST by C. Edmund Wright
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To: Smokeyblue

TAKE OUT THE EPA. Yeah baby!!!!!!

Where the H is the EPA spending the money? (we know it went to their little propaganda projects)

1st place to look EPA. TIME TO GET THE GREEN EYE SHADE TYPES IN THE FBI TO DO A FULL AUDIT!!!


7 posted on 12/29/2011 9:21:59 AM PST by marty60
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Den of thieves just rearranging deck chairs!


9 posted on 12/29/2011 9:24:21 AM PST by poobear (Facts, the TURD in the punchbowl of Liberal thought!)
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To: Smokeyblue

The republican candidates have so much ammo. If only they’d use it!!!!


10 posted on 12/29/2011 9:25:06 AM PST by jersey117 (.)
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To: Smokeyblue

Hee hee hee. bttt


14 posted on 12/29/2011 9:39:05 AM PST by Matchett-PI ("One party will generally represent the envied, the other the envious. Guess which ones." ~GagdadBob)
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To: Smokeyblue

“Criminal Capitalism” seems to be rampant in the democrat/socialist party.

Pray for America.


16 posted on 12/29/2011 9:41:36 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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the coal plants ate my homework!


18 posted on 12/29/2011 9:55:18 AM PST by WOBBLY BOB (Congress: Looting the future to bribe the present.)
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REPUBLICANS SHOULD BE ALL OVER THIS Abelow and Corzine misled Congress on several points:

1. When Congress asked Abelow about "previously working with Corzine," Abelow reluctantly mentioned being Gov Corzine's COS. Abelow MADE NO MENTION of Corzine appointing him to head NJ's Dept of the Treasury---where the two con artists controlled ALL of NJ's tax assets.

2. Abelow and Corzine SHOULD have been pressed about their formation of an investment company while they were principals of NJ govt and controlled its assets. The two "financial geniuses" later said they did not know that was illegal.

3. Corznie should have been asked about using his Senate seat to pass a law that benfited a troubled Japanese bank----the same bank that was taken over by Christopher Flowers who was overseeing Corziner's "blind trust." Corzine said he did not know the law benefited him. Flowers is also an MF principal in the missing $1.2 billion.

4. Corzine should have been asked how much G/S made financing muni bonds while JC was NJ governor----and if bond rigging took place by the Dept of Community Affairs. (Corzine later appointed DCA head Suzan Bass Levin to a millionaire's perch at the Pork Authority).

5. Corzine should have been asked about missing $8 billion NJ School funds, the missing $17.5 billion stimulus Obama sent NJ, and the $8 billion debt he left N

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ANALYSIS It defies imagination and common sense that the two "financial geniuses" can't figure out where the $1.2 billion is.

Monies were transferred in and out of MF Global continually.....all done by wire transfer------EFT. There's a clear record of when, where, and how much for EACH wire transfer......like your cell phone bill. Each call is listed, the number dialed, the time of the call, and the duration. So they absolutely know exactly who got the $$, and when it was received.

Corzine was not able to remove the customer funds by himself. It required most of the key back office personnel to do this. ..........and all had to know that it was 100% illegal to do so. Yet NOONE blew the whistle, and called the regulators? This underlines the corrupt corporate culture that predominates today on Wall Street.

So, why did they go along? Were they assured it would be put back in a day or two......that it was a temporary glitch? If they didn't agree, the firm would go under? Their jobs would be lost if they didnt go along?

Savvy observers say many MF insiders are now working out deals with the Feds, to name names and provide direct testimony as to who exactly ordered the customers' funds to be removed from the accounts.

Count on direct testimony that Corzine ordered illegal acts.......written records are also to surface. Corzine is toast. Obama and the Dems will toss him under the bus. Corzine is making a huge mistake by underestimating the anger of Jerseyans he left holding the bag----he socked us with massive debt, bankrupt state agencies, and a state pension fund 25% lighter,

Corzine departed with billions of tax assets unaccounted for. Throwing him under a bus is too good for him......considering the damage he's caused.

19 posted on 12/29/2011 10:05:16 AM PST by Liz
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Some investigative journalist is missing a big opportunity to expose the corruption in this administration and make a big name for him/herself. Oops - can’t do that - wrong party.


21 posted on 12/29/2011 10:45:04 AM PST by jersey117 (.)
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23 posted on 12/29/2011 11:25:11 AM PST by Nachum (The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
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This insanity must stop!~!! Missing 1.2 BILLION and he shrugs.....and he’s in charge of the finances of the EPA, which is in the billions.......wait for the shrug.


24 posted on 12/29/2011 4:57:32 PM PST by Ann Archy ( ABORTION...the HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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