[Donald Stone]

Deutsche Bank, Merrill Lynch, UBS Warburg, Lehman Brothers, Bear Stearns, Morgan Stanley, J.P. Morgan Chase, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, and Credit Suisse First Boston are all expected to send their general counsel or top lawyers.

The FIX is in !!!!

Let me guess, Jack Quinn (Marc Rich's attorney)will be making the necessary arrangements for all the "usual suspects"

I see there is a summit meeting in Washington D.C. of our top white collar organized crime syndicates which means our elected and appointed officials will be standing in line to receive corporate donations to make all this wrong doing go away.

Ironic that there is currently a request before a federal judge in New York asking that federal criminal indictments be brought against Goldman Sachs for alleged racketeering for offering assets bought from an alleged organized crime syndicate and then bundled into an IPO.

[Liz]

Quick....somebody speed-dial Harvey Pitt and fill him in....LOL.

[Fred Mertz]

Donald, thanks for the additional tidbits.

[mssnoop]

The minutes of these meetings should be public records that the public can review. Let the paper trail roll out!

You are right the fix is on - all under the guise of protecting the fragile economy. There are some very high level officials involved to Salomon Smith Barney and this investigation has to be shut down.

[arete]

The FIX is in !!!!

Right on target except that the fix HAS been in ever since Spitzer accepted 100 million from MER to make "their probems" go away. It is all about appearing to be tough on the Wall Street criminals while doing very little. NO criminal charges will be filed. So the message is that it is okay to rob the public as long as you give the lawyers and politicians a cut of the take. It is a disgrace.

Richard W.