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A suspected rogue trader accused of a staggering £1.3billion fraud told friends he needed ‘a miracle’ days before he was arrested. Kweku Adoboli, 31, posted a desperate last message on Facebook as he tried to recover enormous losses he had run up through illegal trading. Detectives detained Adoboli, who works for Swiss banking giant UBS, during a 3.30am raid yesterday at his luxury London flat. The Ghanaian, who was privately educated in Britain and is the son of a retired UN worker, is accused of being responsible for the biggest loss ever accrued by a single trader based in London......

U.S. Senator Fears for Life of CEOhttp://www.thesanitycheck.com/BobsS...53/Default.aspx "Dr. Byrne said that Orrin Hatch is fearful for Dr. Byrne's life. And said that he wanted Patrick to get out the message that he would move the earth to get whoever did it, should Patrick meet with an untimely end - hit by a car, plane goes down, chokes on a chicken bone, takes two slugs to the back of the head in a "suicide." Bob O'Brien - "I'm sure that there are a few "journalists" who believe they know better than Intelligence Committee leaders, and believe that trying to expose my...

StockGate: Is All Heck About To Break Loose? via COMTEX Aug 25, 2005 12:42:00 AM Aug 25, 2005 (financialwire.net via COMTEX) -- August 25, 2005 (FinancialWire) With JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM), Deutsche Bank AG (NYSE: DB), Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Morgan Stanley (NYSE: WMD) and Merrill Lynch & Co. (NYSE: MER), who dominate the credit-derivatives market, reportedly among 14 banks being called on the carpet by the NY Fed over "unconfirmed trades," and a super task force of regulators reportedly auditing the top brokerages over allegations of illegal naked short selling, it could soon be "SHO and tell"...