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Related: About this forumCrazy: 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
That pizza slice must have had a lot of toppings on it! He's so on top of this problem.
HopeHoops
Aug 2012
#3
xtraxritical
(3,576 posts)1. Time for the revolution to begin.
DeSwiss
(27,137 posts)2. It's already begun:
[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)3. That pizza slice must have had a lot of toppings on it! He's so on top of this problem.
DeSwiss
(27,137 posts)4. Hella toppings!!! :-D n/t
HopeHoops
(47,675 posts)5. Now if it had $1.2B in toppings, I could see the prison sentence.
Hell, if they let him out of jail, I'LL fucking pay for his slice of pizza.