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marmar

(77,078 posts)
Wed Jun 5, 2013, 06:02 PM Jun 2013

Hookers and Hecklers........


.......... Sorry, this thread is about neither, but about banksters.


WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — Faced with a rash of insider trading in the markets, federal prosecutors and securities regulators in recent years have stepped up efforts to crack down on violations.

But insider trading and market fraud persist, perhaps at epidemic levels. Even though the Securities and Exchange Commission has brought more insider-trading actions in the past three years than in any three-year period in the agency’s history, and even though the U.S. attorney in New York City has convicted 73 people in insider-trading cases since 2009, the crime remains all too common.

That’s what MarketWatch found in a series of interviews with people convicted of insider trading and fraud. These felons painted a picture of an unfair market driven by widespread cheating that favors those with privileged information and expensive technology. The cheating also hurts individual investors and retirement savers trying to follow the rules of the road and produces a deeply unfair market environment.

MarketWatch reporters conducted a series of in-depth interviews with ex–investment brokers and others who lost their trading licenses and are either in prison serving multiyear sentences or have done their time in the slammer and now advise others on what not to do. ....................(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.marketwatch.com/story/madoff-other-felons-say-markets-are-rigged-2013-06-05?dist=afterbell



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Hookers and Hecklers........ (Original Post) marmar Jun 2013 OP
You got my attention! JustAnotherGen Jun 2013 #1
Pitbulls smoking cigarettes in an Olive Garden were caught heckling breastfeeding hookers! Scootaloo Jun 2013 #2
ROFL..... marmar Jun 2013 #3
They were discussing the death penalty ... lpbk2713 Jun 2013 #6
The pitbulls were circumcised. awoke_in_2003 Jun 2013 #8
Damn you! I thought this thread was about "hooklers". nt Guy Whitey Corngood Jun 2013 #4
Dang! Too broke to care! In_The_Wind Jun 2013 #5
Aww, I was looking for flamebait. Inkfreak Jun 2013 #7
Du rec. Nt xchrom Jun 2013 #9
welcome relief warrprayer Jun 2013 #10
 

Scootaloo

(25,699 posts)
2. Pitbulls smoking cigarettes in an Olive Garden were caught heckling breastfeeding hookers!
Wed Jun 5, 2013, 06:20 PM
Jun 2013

*pant, pant, pant* Did I get them all?

Inkfreak

(1,695 posts)
7. Aww, I was looking for flamebait.
Wed Jun 5, 2013, 06:30 PM
Jun 2013

Instead I got an informative article about the real criminals & how they prospered...


Thanks! Great info!

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