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The criminal psychopathic degenerates at the National Futures Association have announced that they have hired a firm, Berkeley Research Group, to perform an external "review" of their procedures. Here's the citation at CFTClaw.com Apparently Dan Roth, the head of the NFA criminal mafia, is so distraught over the fact that he and his gutter-dwelling shake-down organization finally got caught, he actually considered deploying his golden parachute and retiring. I would speculate that Roth probably looked long and hard at the real estate markets in countries with no extradition treaties with the U.S. I guess he didn't see anything appealing, because...

Senator Chuck Grassley, Republican of Iowa, says SEC may have destroyed documents“From what I’ve seen, it looks as if the SEC might have sanctioned some level of case-related document destruction,” said Sen. Chuck Grassley, Republican of Iowa, in a letter to the agency’s chairman, Mary Schapiro. “It doesn’t make sense that an agency responsible for investigations would want to get rid of potential evidence. If these charges are true, the agency needs to explain why it destroyed documents, how many documents it destroyed over what timeframe, and to what extent its actions were consistent with the law.” Agency staff “destroyed...

The Securities and Exchange Commission inspector general has agreed to a request from Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., to probe the timing and political motivations of the SEC’s $550 million settlement with Goldman Sachs in a mortgage securities fraud case:m SEC Inspector General H. David Kotz agreed in April to a request from U.S. Representative Darrell Issa, a California Republican, that he probe whether politics prompted the lawsuit against Goldman Sachs. (Snip) Aside from the timing, many observers scoffed at the settlement. The $550 million settlement is pocket change compared to Goldman’s $162 billion in assets