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DeSwiss

(27,137 posts)
Sun Aug 26, 2012, 08:11 PM Aug 2012

Crazy: Stealing A Pizza Worse Than Stealing $1 Billion?



Published on Aug 17, 2012 by TheYoungTurks

"A criminal investigation into the collapse of the brokerage firm MF Global and the disappearance of about $1 billion in customer money is now heading into its final stage without charges expected against any top executives.

After 10 months of stitching together evidence on the firm's demise, criminal investigators are concluding that chaos and porous risk controls at the firm, rather than fraud, allowed the money to disappear, according to people involved in the case...".* The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur breaks it down.

*Read more here from AZAM AHMED AND BEN PROTESS in the New York Times: http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/08/15/no-criminal-case-is-likely-in-loss-at-...

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Crazy: Stealing A Pizza Worse Than Stealing $1 Billion? (Original Post) DeSwiss Aug 2012 OP
Time for the revolution to begin. xtraxritical Aug 2012 #1
It's already begun: DeSwiss Aug 2012 #2
That pizza slice must have had a lot of toppings on it! He's so on top of this problem. HopeHoops Aug 2012 #3
Hella toppings!!! :-D n/t DeSwiss Aug 2012 #4
Now if it had $1.2B in toppings, I could see the prison sentence. HopeHoops Aug 2012 #5
 

DeSwiss

(27,137 posts)
2. It's already begun:
Sun Aug 26, 2012, 09:48 PM
Aug 2012

[center]"The revolution is not going to happen tomorrow -- it's never going to happen.

It's taking place right now.

It is an alternate universe that runs parallel to this one, waiting for you to switch sides."


EXPECT RESISTANCE[/center]


 

HopeHoops

(47,675 posts)
5. Now if it had $1.2B in toppings, I could see the prison sentence.
Mon Aug 27, 2012, 12:08 PM
Aug 2012

Hell, if they let him out of jail, I'LL fucking pay for his slice of pizza.

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