Prosecutors can’t make a case against MF Global [New]
Federal authorities are struggling to find evidence to support a criminal case stemming from the collapse of MF Global, even after a federal grand jury in Chicago has issued subpoenas.
Investigators, unable to find a smoking gun amid thousands of e-mails and documents, increasingly suspect that chaos and poor risk control systems prompted the disappearance of more than $1 billion in customer money, according to several people involved in the case.
When the money first went missing, prosecutors in New York and Chicago scrambled to stake a claim. Now, four months later, both Preet S. Bharara, the United States attorney in Manhattan, and Patrick J. Fitzgerald, his counterpart in Chicago, are shying away from leading the case, one of those people involved in the case said.
Indeed, a number of federal prosecutors have expressed doubts to others involved in the case that anyone at MF Global — including the firm’s chief executive, Jon S. Corzine, and back-office employees in Chicago — intentionally misused customer money, said people involved in the case who were not authorized to speak publicly about the investigation.
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Just think how fast would the people behind the missing billion would have been prosecuted if they were among the 99%.
PS. Tonight’s episode of ‘Bill Moyers & Company’ is a encore presentation of the premiere episode.
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Emocrat [New]
Wednesday, 7 Mar, 2012 at 2:48 pm
It’s just too hard to prosecute these wily bankers!
I guess the confirms the old axe, The best way to rob a bank is to own one.