Archive for February 21st, 2009

BREAKING NEWS: Another Major Probe Imminent Amid Extraordinary Assertion That Fund Managers Took Hundreds Of Millions Of Higher-Education Client Dollars And Left IOUs

BREAKING NEWS: Another Major Probe Imminent Amid Extraordinary Assertion That Fund Managers Took Hundreds Of Millions Of Higher-Education Client Dollars And Left IOUs

UPDATE 10:55 P.M. EST (Feb. 22, U.S.A.) We’ve added to the bottom of this post some information about Westridge Capital’s website, which appears to consist of a single page and is amateur by any modern standard. We’ve also associated a second domain to the company.  It, too, appears to consist of a single page — […]

Words That Should Become The New ‘Shot Heard ‘Round The World’ Spoken By Former CFTC Enforcement Chief

Words That Should Become The New 'Shot Heard 'Round The World' Spoken By Former CFTC Enforcement Chief

By coincidence the words appear in the 13th paragraph of a Chicago Tribune story invoking investors’ sustained lack of luck and reporting on a new series of Ponzi schemes the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission is investigating. The words were spoken by Gregory Mocek, former CFTC enforcement director, and are the most important words spoken […]