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-Lurid Crime Tales-
How Corzine Steered Regulators To Protect MF Global Strategy
When Jon Corzine took the reins of MF Global in 2010, the Wall Street brokerage was a deeply troubled firm. Revenues weren't covering expenses, money was being lost, and rating agencies were threatening a downgrade.

Reversing the tailspin would not be easy, but if anyone was up to the task, it seemed to be Corzine. At age 47, the former U.S. Marine became the youngest CEO in Goldman Sachs history. In 2000, New Jersey voters elected him to the Senate and six years later, they elected him governor. When Barack Obama won the White House in 2008, Corzine was rumored to be on the shortlist for Treasury secretary.

At MF Global, his strategy was simple: "We are transforming from sort of an old-like brokerage firm into an investment bank," Corzine told CNBC's Maria Bartiromo. Key to his plan was a massive bet on European government bonds -- a bet that would swell to more than $6 billion, and ultimately lead to MF Global's collapse.

At the same time, Corzine was using a finance strategy known as "internal repo."* In essence, MF Global was borrowing money from the firm's own accounts and using it to fund trading in another part of the firm. During the summer of 2011, however, just months before MF Global filed for bankruptcy, internal repo was a strategy regulators were hoping to do away with.
Internal repo was allowed in the London markets but not in New York, so coincidentally MF Global was running all their accounts through London. If you were an American and signed up with MF Global to manage your commodities account, one of the clauses in four-point type in the contract gave MF Global the right to transfer your account to their London office if they wished. Shazaam, instant internal repo...
As shown in the above excerpt from tonight's film Six Billion Dollar Bet, internal repo transactions were so important to Corzine that he met with officials at the Commodities Future Trading Commission (CFTC) on three occasions to lobby for their preservation.

As CFTC Commissioner Bart Chilton told FRONTLINE:
Sen. Corzine was one of the more prominent individuals who came in and told us what a drastic mistake it would be to curtail the use of these internal repurchasing agreements ... And when he told me that we were making a big mistake, it certainly put some doubt into my mind for a little bit there as whether or not we were going down the right course. But certainly somebody that had his stature ... added respect, in my view.
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Home Front: Politix
Judicial Watch Obtains DOD and CIA Records Detailing Meetings with bin Laden Raid Filmmakers
DOD Officials Disclosed to Filmmakers Identity of SEAL Team Six Operator and Commander; Ask Film Director to Withhold Operator's Name, 'because he shouldn't be talking out of school.'
Posted by: Beavis || 05/24/2012 10:02 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Democrats, Hollywood, the White House, a war movie, black helo's, Abbattabod house mock ups, a burial at sea, a presidential election? Who KNEW?

More ugly desperation.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/24/2012 16:05 Comments || Top||

#2  These documents show that politically-connected film makers were giving extraordinary and secret access to bin Laden raid information, including the identity of a Seal Team Six leader,”

The Seals did the raid? I thought Obummer did it single-handedly.
Posted by: JohnQC || 05/24/2012 16:33 Comments || Top||

#3  The only thing I would enjoy seeing him to "single-handedly" is lose the White House as a primary residence. If he and Moochelle pull a HUD and strip out copper wiring and all the fixtures on their way out, no problem, we've cut our loses.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/24/2012 17:03 Comments || Top||

#4  He's done that to the country already though. He's just sold the copper wire in everyone's homes and their childrens!
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 05/24/2012 17:55 Comments || Top||


-Election 2012
Romney slams US visa for Castro daughter visit
[Daily Nation (Kenya)] Republican Willard Mitt Romney
...former governor of Massachussetts, currently the presumptive Publican nominee for president. He is the son of the former governor of Michigan, George Romney, who himself ran for president after saving American Motors from failure, though not permanently. Romney's charisma is best defined as soporific, which is probably why he is leading the Publican field. On the plus side, he isn't President B.O...
has said he is "greatly disturbed" that President Barack Obama
I've now been in 57 states -- I think one left to go...
's administration has granted a visitor's visa to the daughter of Cuban President Compañero Raul Castro.
...Fidel's little brother...
Mariela Castro, a sexologist who supports gay rights, was granted the visa to attend the annual conference of the Latin American Studies Association on May 23-26 in San Francisco.

"We shouldn't be extending an open hand to a regime engaged in the systematic and flagrant denial of basic human rights,"
...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty...
Republican presidential hopeful Romney said in a statement.

The B.O. regime defended its decision on May 18. "We don't link visa policy in cases like this to our larger political and economic and human rights relationship with countries," said State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland.
Posted by: Fred || 05/24/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  C'mon, Sarah...Figure out a way how to jump back in this thing.
Pharaoh and his MSM demons, will slice and dice Mittens. Heaven help us all.
Posted by: canalzone || 05/24/2012 0:31 Comments || Top||

#2  Obama's evolution to gay, coupled with ads equating Obama to Castro, seems to have put Romney up by about 6 percentage points in Florida. Also appears to be playing very well with Cuban/Latino/Hispanics in New York and New Jersey.
Posted by: junkiron || 05/24/2012 9:28 Comments || Top||

#3  Win-win-win. Jab Obama and Hillary's DOS for sucking up to Communist killer regimes, highlighting this bitch's rhetoric and the awful leftists that invited her and support Cuba/Castro. Oh...and if it helps win Florida, that's OK too :-)
Posted by: Frank G || 05/24/2012 9:29 Comments || Top||

#4  #2 Obama's evolution to gay, coupled with ads equating Obama to Castro Junkiron

Will soon learn that Obama has a brother who is also a Cuban Army general?
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/24/2012 9:35 Comments || Top||

#5  Mariela Castro, a sexologist who supports gay rights Ummm...That's HOT!
Posted by: canalzone || 05/24/2012 23:08 Comments || Top||



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