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........... Recipient of the 2010 MacDougal Irving Prize for Truth in Market Manipulation ...........

December 9, 2011

“I Simply Do Not Know Where the Money Is”


            Our mob connection ran the back office at Filch & Finagle.  He was responsible for safeguarding firm securities and those of Filch’s customers, but did not have an account there.  He kept his own investments in an envelope segregated from the rest of the certificates on a separate shelf inside their subbasement bank vault.

            For over half a century, our mob connection knew where his money was.  He also knew where everybody else’s money was, but his was kind of on top of theirs and a lot easier to see.

            Once, a Filch & Finagle CEO found out what our mob connection was doing, and the CEO asked him to stick the CEO's investments in another envelope and keep the CEO's money on top of everybody else's too, and our mob connection did, and there were two envelopes of their own money on top of everybody else's money inside the subbasement bank vault after that, though our mob connection said he still kept his on the very, very top.

            Overnight, that is.  Work days, our mob connection took everybody else's money out of the subbasement bank vault and wheeled it up to Filch’s cage.  The firm was on the 19th floor of the  Falutin National Bank Building, and Falutin let him use one of their service elevators and set it up to travel directly between 19 and the Falutin subbasement vault and sent an armed guard along with him whenever he went into the Falutin subbasement vault or rode the Falutin service elevator with everybody else's money.

            The Filch & Finagle cage took up a whole wing of the 19th floor.  The cage was enclosed on three sides by metal bars so nobody could break in that way.  The fourth side was the outer wall fronting Wall Street, and nobody ever tried climbing up 19 floors to break in that way either.

            Our mob connection had all the keys.  The one to the subbasement bank vault, the one to the cage, and the one to the locked bin that held everybody else's money when it was wheeled back and forth between the subbasement bank vault and the cage via the service elevator.

            Some former Goldberg Styx CEO and former U.S. Senator who was BM World's CEO when it lost everybody's money testified before Congress yesterday and said a lot of things that may have bewildered our subscribers, and almost all of them bewildered us too, but the one about not knowing where anybody’s money was really stood out because we happen to know how that’s done.  Well, used to be done anyway.

            If any of you happen to run into the former Goldberg, Styx/U.S. Senator/BM World CEO, please pass the above information along.  Maybe he’ll be able to do better next time, and especially when the question comes up during his trial.

            Our mob connection knew where everybody’s money was every moment of every day and every night for more than 50 years.  He ran the accounting department too, so he also knew where the numbers were recorded and how, and that they were always accurate to the penny.

            To the penny, Mister former Golberg, Styx/U. S. Senator/BM World CEO.  To the Falutin penny.