Democratic Sen. Corzine's Wall Street Sleaze

NewsMax ^ | 7/20 | Carl Limbacher

[OPS4]

Well here we have a great article we had better hear on the main stream press, Please post and emaill all sites you can reach, Thanks, Ops4. God Bless America!!!

[OldFriend]

Corzine was forced out of Goldman Sachs due to some underhanded wheeling and dealing during the Long Term Capital scandal. He also refused to release his tax or buy out information during his run for Senate. Of course, he got a pass from the media and will continue to do so.

[11th Earl of Mar]

No offense, but how can a four day old topic that has been posted several times on Free Republic be considered "Breaking News"?

[berned]

Whenever I see an article with this kind of headline, I always play a little game with myself. I try to guess, "Newsmax or WorldNetDaily"? I guessed wrong this time, I thought it was WND.

Never ever ever do I guess wrong and have it be ABC, NBC, CBS, NYT, WashPost, Yahoo, AP, or Reuters. An article this negative of any Democrat would NEVER be published in those places.

[OPS4]

The dateline of the article is today, So it could not have been posted before, maybe by some other source?, I guess I do not have the time to memorize all posts every four days, do you?
Ops4 God Bless America!

[Major Matt Mason]

"Goldman Sachs, the firm that Mr. Corzine left as chairman in May 1999...

Hmmm, are we sure the firm wasn't Smith Barney Frank? Wouldn't want to confuse poor Ms. Waters now, would we?

[Alissa]

Never ever ever do I guess wrong and have it be ABC, NBC, CBS, NYT, WashPost, Yahoo, AP, or Reuters. An article this negative of any Democrat would NEVER be published in those places.

Bump

[Bigg Red]

Good answer to your critic! BTW, for me, it is "breaking news" as I don't have time to monitor the site constantly. So, thanks.

[goody2shooz]

"Goldman Sachs never forced anyone to buy anything when I was chairman, I can tell you that," he [Corzine] insisted.

Everyone notice that he did not say they refrained from misrepresenting the stocks, or from providing all the facts of the fundamentals of the institution offering the shares?

I used to work in a boiler room telephoning contactees for brokers. Oh boy! Putting lipstick on pigs was what we did well. Couldn't stomach the work for long, probably for the same reason I found working in Land Use Planning so objectionable. When you have integrity, cheating people makes you sick.

[fella]

"Corzine claims to be totally ignorant"

Yep. That says it all.

[goody2shooz]

"or from providing" = "or provided"

[NormsRevenge]

OH MYYY!!!! IM Shocked and APPaLLed!!! "The red-faced Corzine claims to be totally ignorant about such schemes when he ran the firm from 1994 to 1999." [/Glee]

[Scott from the Left Coast]

Well here we have a great article we had better hear on the main stream press

Why, just luckily enough I am in possession of a special computer that can calculate comparative odds on any single subject at the push of just a single button!

I am entering the question to this great computer just now: What are the odds that this story will be covered by the mainstream media? Grrrr...clunk...whizz...brrrrr...and here is it's answer:

The same odds as for Osama Bin Laden converting to Assembly-of-God style Christianity.

[Bogie]

Bump!

[lelio]

Of course GS didn't "force" anyone to buy stocks. However if you didn't buy the stocks then they didn't do business with you. Gives GS deniability.

[blackdog]

The really funny issue is that the brokerages manage mutual funds. These funds have managers who hire accountants and analysts to review the businesses who's stocks, bonds, and securities they include(buy) into their fund. What really tickles me, is just what were these fund-level managers, accountants, and analysts doing exactly? For how many years? And people complain about government workers collecting a check for doing nothing? These were people making a few hundred grand a year to report back on the health and integrity of the stocks the funds were aquiring!

Shoot the bastards!

[11th Earl of Mar]

The story is from last Wednesday's Washington Times [no fault of yours]. Try a search "Corzine" and you will see several posts.

[Blood of Tyrants]

The liberal media will investigate theis on the same day they air Juanita Brodderick's story.

[blackdog]

I think I am going to sue American Express Financial Advisors in order to get a discovery look-see at the reports their in house analysts and accountants put together on the lipsticked pig stocks. They lost $100,000,000 on Worldcom alone. These funds were just defrauding investors. Technically they forced nobody to buy the funds, but we did tape record our last several meetings with our advisor. I would say we were coerced.

[Madcelt]

AAHHHHMMMEEENNNN......say it brother, say it.