Born into a Big 5 investment banking family, I quit organized financial racketeering to go straight. MacDougal Irving is my Blogger Protection Identity, and I am a retired Certified Public Accountant and, like all of us, a badly misinformed investor. These are my observations on capital market cons as they were explained to me across the dinner table as a kid.
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........... Recipient of the 2010 MacDougal Irving Prize for Truth in Market Manipulation ...........
September 19, 2012
Almost Like the Mafia
Face it, what distinguishes convicted financial wise guys from the rest of the Mafia are the headlines. There aren't any. The Feds are protecting Wall Street Crime Families from publicity at times when they'd be shining their media spotlight on any other gumbas. Note the number of convictions that have been hidden from public scrutiny here.
This has to come at the behest of corrupt politicians stuffing their pockets with "campaign contribution" payoffs. Surely that's the real story in this one:
http://money.cnn.com/2012/09/18/news/companies/banks-bid-rigging/index.html?iid=H_BN_News