• 25 Jul 2008 at 10:37 AM

SemGroup: It Gets So Much Worse

By Bess Levin

hootersgirl.jpgYou might’ve thought you didn’t give a rat’s ass about the collapse of energy trader SemGroup but that changes now. According to Reuters, three “massage clinics,” eight funeral homes, two Hooters establishments and a pawnshop that “specializes in gold jewelry” are among the companies owed tens of millions of dollars by the (voluntarily) bankrupt company.
Pawnbroker among creditors in oil trader collapse [Reuters]

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  1. 1
    Posted by guest | July 25, 2008 at 10:53 AM

    wow
    dig more details please Carney / Bess, dig some more dirt.

  2. 2
    Posted by guest | July 25, 2008 at 10:56 AM

    please tell me the Hooters, massage clinics AND the funeral homes are all related to the same people…

  3. 3
    Posted by guest | July 25, 2008 at 10:58 AM

    Sounds like a bad Vegas trip

  4. 4
    Posted by guest | July 25, 2008 at 10:59 AM

    sounds like a great Vegas trip

  5. 5
    Posted by bank_teller | July 25, 2008 at 11:00 AM

    when do the hooters analyst numbers come out?

  6. 6
    Posted by guest | July 25, 2008 at 11:00 AM

    i heard pawn shop 1st year analysts got $800 bonuses this year? any truth to the rumor? i’m thinking about calling my headhunter stat

  7. 7
    Posted by lemmerdeur | July 25, 2008 at 11:02 AM

    This is why we all read Dealbreaker.

  8. 8
    Posted by guest | July 25, 2008 at 11:03 AM

    It is all about the mayo!

  9. 9
    Posted by guest | July 25, 2008 at 11:04 AM

    @5 not sure about the analysts but hearing that all the associates were happy. All were above average.

  10. 10
    Posted by guest | July 25, 2008 at 11:04 AM

    They also owe $$ to a shoe shine store in Wilmington, owned by TGFD

  11. 11
    Posted by guest | July 25, 2008 at 11:08 AM

    energy trading groups will come and go but the mayonnaise will always prevail ty Gary Tugs

  12. 12
    Posted by guest | July 25, 2008 at 11:08 AM

    energy trading groups will come and go but the mayonnaise will always prevail ty Gary Tugs

  13. 13
    Posted by guest | July 25, 2008 at 11:08 AM

    energy trading groups will come and go but the mayonnaise will always prevail ty Gary Tugs

  14. 14
    Posted by guest | July 25, 2008 at 11:10 AM

    analysts will come and go, but the same idiots will always triple post

  15. 15
    Posted by guest | July 25, 2008 at 11:10 AM

    Hooters at the discount window.
    Dimon, Geithner and Bess Levin in talks.
    -retail

  16. 16
    Posted by guest | July 25, 2008 at 11:11 AM

    What boobies. Are there any of these Hooters ladies around Wharton or Chicago GSB where I’m most likely to go to after my 780 GMATs?
    The Guy from India,
    RAVI

  17. 17
    Posted by EricM | July 25, 2008 at 11:12 AM

    26 McDonald’s? The intern’s McMuffin times must have been staggering.

  18. 18
    Posted by guest | July 25, 2008 at 11:16 AM

    what’s up with the wax model of neil cavuto in their dealbreaker ad?

  19. 19
    Posted by guest | July 25, 2008 at 11:18 AM

    that analyst comment was mean spirited you moron ty Tugs

  20. 20
    Posted by guest | July 25, 2008 at 11:18 AM

    Hooters has great Mayo!

  21. 21
    Posted by guest | July 25, 2008 at 11:19 AM

    #10 Guest@11:04am…
    Thanks for the ‘plug’ on the shine shop. It’s good to know that you clowns are thinking of me.
    I always say, “It is better to have people make negative comments about you than to have them make no comment at all”.
    The Guy from Delaware

  22. 22
    Posted by guest | July 25, 2008 at 11:21 AM

    Funny, I always say it is better have a guy take a dump on your chest than to have him take a dump in the toilet

  23. 23
    Posted by guest | July 25, 2008 at 11:24 AM

    People….we are talking about Tulsa, Oklahoma here. Most people in Tulsa think that the Disney movie, “Old Yeller” is a dental hygiene film.

  24. 24
    Posted by guest | July 25, 2008 at 11:28 AM

    I don’t grasp how 26 Mickey D franchises get stiffed.Did these guys also sell cooking oil swaps? The pawn shop angle is even murkier…what, no chop shops have complained about their refinancing rates with their local shylocks?

  25. 25
    Posted by guest | July 25, 2008 at 11:31 AM

    Hooters would be a great place if they didn’t allow the waitresses’ boyfriends to hang around during the lunch rush hour. I had to seek my waitress recently to get my bill and her skank-ass cracker red neck mullet-wearing boyfriend with the damn spiderweb tattoo on both elbows says, “What do you want?” When I told him I just wanted my bill he looked away and she fetched it without further ado. Since I wasn’t in Tulsa, I don’t know if he worked for SemGroup or not.

  26. 26
    Posted by guest | July 25, 2008 at 11:42 AM

    Hooters is a shit outfit. They opened one here in Wilmington some years back. Didn’t last long and shut down. They had plenty of chicks working there, but not enough customers.
    Hooters’ shitty, low-life reputation is what killed it here. They’re not missed.
    The Guy from Delaware

  27. 27
    Posted by guest | July 25, 2008 at 11:44 AM

    how about those associate numbers?

  28. 28
    Posted by guest | July 25, 2008 at 11:52 AM

    @26. Funny, i have spent a lot of nights in Wilmington. I would have thought that a Hooters could only have classed up that dump.

  29. 29
    Posted by guest | July 25, 2008 at 11:59 AM

    I heard Hooters is poaching first year pawn shop analysts

  30. 30
    Posted by guest | July 25, 2008 at 12:03 PM

    #28 Guest…
    I guess you thought wrong. Your nights must have been spent at Front & Grunt Streets. Hooters could have possibly “classed up” that place, but that’s not where they put it.
    The Guy from Delaware

  31. 31
    Posted by guest | July 25, 2008 at 12:06 PM

    Based on CDS quotes, WaMu needs to merge with Hooters to survive…
    Tits that Moo… or would that be mooing tits?

  32. 32
    Posted by guest | July 25, 2008 at 12:15 PM

    Some of you traderettes who might be looking for work should check this career site:
    http://www.hooters.com/hootersgirl/careers.html

  33. 33
    Posted by guest | July 25, 2008 at 12:28 PM

    Hooters is where chicks who lack the coordination or rhythm to be pole dancers end up working. The food’s not very good either.

  34. 34
    Posted by guest | July 25, 2008 at 12:53 PM

    i heard chicks from delaware werent smart enough for hooters, they had to recruit from jersey

  35. 35
    Posted by guest | July 25, 2008 at 1:01 PM

    #34 Guest…
    Come to visit northwestern Delaware’s “Chateau Country”. You may change your opinion about us. The chicks here are all mostly ‘pink & green’.
    But then again, maybe you shouldn’t bother visiting. We wouldn’t want the place trashed up.
    The Guy from Delaware

  36. 36
    Posted by guest | July 25, 2008 at 1:16 PM

    ivy league idiots make bookies look like altar boys.

  37. 37
    Posted by guest | July 25, 2008 at 2:01 PM

    #35 is TGFD

  38. 38
    Posted by JimBob | July 25, 2008 at 2:11 PM

    So those “rub and tug swaps” didn’t work out as planned?

  39. 39
    Posted by guest | July 25, 2008 at 2:11 PM

    #37 Guest…
    ????? Of course it is I.
    The Guy from Delaware

  40. 40
    Posted by guest | July 25, 2008 at 2:21 PM

    #39 is TGFD

  41. 41
    Posted by guest | July 25, 2008 at 2:24 PM

    RAVI,
    If you’re at Wharton, no need for Hooters, go to Wizzards strip club in the basement of the Chili’s two blocks away. Seriously.

  42. 42
    Posted by guest | July 25, 2008 at 2:32 PM

    I think Ravi is JC’s friend to the South. He named him Ravi, gave him a HIGH gmat score all to compensate for his other shortcomings.

  43. 43
    Posted by guest | July 25, 2008 at 2:38 PM

    guy from delaware,
    which hooters? there are two currently on in north wilmington and the bikers one on 13 in new castle
    NEW YORK (Reuters) – Massage clinics, McDonald’s restaurants, funeral homes and a Canadian pawnbroker specializing in gold jewelry are among the hundreds of companies listed as creditors by failed U.S. energy trader SemGroup.
    I hope this is an advance payment for their funerals

  44. 44
    Posted by guest | July 25, 2008 at 3:01 PM

    http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/44864000/jpg/_44864004_placing_afp_226body.jpg
    No doubts

  45. 45
    Posted by guest | July 25, 2008 at 3:10 PM

    #43 Guest…
    Sounds like you did some homework, but I’m not sure where, though.
    The Hooter’s on 13 (New Castle) is in a shit area not far the Del Memorial Bridge. I don’t go to that area. Besides, that is not considered Wilmington anyway.
    There is no Hooter’s in Wilmington, north Wilmington, or any other Wilmington in Delaware.
    Perhaps from before your time, I recall one opening down by the Riverfront. It didn’t last long and then the one on 13 opened.
    If you go to that place, you must really be a clown and a loser too. Bikers. Hahaha.
    The Guy from Delaware

  46. 46
    Posted by guest | July 25, 2008 at 3:14 PM

    #44 Guest…
    Whatever it takes to fool the people and get elected. Fuck him.
    The Guy from Delaware

  47. 47
    Posted by guest | July 25, 2008 at 3:16 PM

    TGFD – WTF do you mean by that?

  48. 48
    Posted by guest | July 25, 2008 at 3:25 PM

    #47 Guest…
    He’s no more Jewish than I am. That’s what I mean.
    The Guy from Delaware

  49. 49
    Posted by guest | July 25, 2008 at 3:32 PM

    Why does tgfd make every comment section about himself, delaware, how old he is/young we are, and boring? thanks for nothing.

  50. 50
    Posted by guest | July 25, 2008 at 3:44 PM

    check out this DB
    http://drop.io/austenbernstein

  51. 51
    Posted by guest | July 25, 2008 at 3:47 PM

    #45 and 46 are TGFD
    Still waiting confirmation on #48

  52. 52
    Posted by guest | July 25, 2008 at 3:48 PM

    Yes but if you bothered to look at what is the CUSTOM in this situation it is for the non jew to wear a kippa when visiting the wailing wall (all alon the wall there are kippa containers for vistors to the wall to wear). Much the same as my catholic brother in law wears a kappa when he attends the synugogue (bat mitzvahs, weddings). Much the same way, non -muslim western woman will wear head scarves in muslim countries.
    It is a sign of tolerance and respect. Granted something the current president does not really exhbit, ever (except to Dick Cheney).

  53. 53
    Posted by guest | July 25, 2008 at 3:51 PM

    #49 Guest…
    I guess you are also #44 & #47.
    Why ever did you post a photo of that empty-suit obama wearing a skull cap and standing at the “Wailing Wall” on this thread? It certainly doesn’t belong here.
    “WTF” were you trying to accomplish? The photo itself invited comments. You got one that didn’t sit well with you. You’re the one whose boring.
    The Guy from Delaware

  54. 54
    Posted by guest | July 25, 2008 at 3:56 PM

    tgfd: #49, aka me, is not #44 or #47. Apparently there is more than one person on this board who finds your ramblings worthless and uninformed. Hard to believe, I know, but you must accept it. We are all now dumber for reading/listening to you.

  55. 55
    Posted by guest | July 25, 2008 at 4:12 PM

    “whose boring” ?
    who is boring?
    CONFIRMED – #53 is TGFD

  56. 56
    Posted by american bandersnatch | July 25, 2008 at 4:15 PM

    Where is TOGFD?

  57. 57
    Posted by guest | July 25, 2008 at 4:25 PM

    @ 56: I was posting on the “Got Money to Burn?” thread as a sex-staved Indian national. Some sharp-eyed DBer smoked me out, though.
    The Other Guy from Delaware

  58. 58
    Posted by guest | July 25, 2008 at 4:32 PM

    #54,#49 Guest…
    One of your bretheren made an unsolicited, voluntary comment about me on post #10. I saw it and replied. That’s all it took to get you clowns on my case.
    #44,#47,#52 Guest…
    obama is a moslem. I cannot imagine any moslem showing any kind of “respect” for the Jews. obama is an opportunist. he’ll do anything if he thinks it will help him get elected. That was my point, “Whatever it takes”.
    The Guy from Delaware

  59. 59
    Posted by guest | July 25, 2008 at 4:36 PM

    #55 Guest…
    Thanks for the reminder. I noticed the mistake after I pulled the trigger, but it was too late.
    The Guy from Delaware

  60. 60
    Posted by guest | July 25, 2008 at 4:37 PM

    Obama is a Christian, you fucking dolt.

  61. 61
    Posted by guest | July 25, 2008 at 4:38 PM

    TGFD – you just make it to easy – moslem?
    On that note – i must go get a drink.
    GOOD WEEKEND ALL!!

  62. 62
    Posted by guest | July 25, 2008 at 4:42 PM

    #60 “dolt”…
    You are having the vision of “hope for change” that he wants you to have. I thought you clowns were smart. How did you get through?
    The Guy from Delaware

  63. 63
    Posted by guest | July 25, 2008 at 4:48 PM

    This thread makes me want to stop reading DB.

  64. 64
    Posted by guest | July 25, 2008 at 4:49 PM

    I don’t have to share or not share a vision to understand reality, you turd. Go peddle your political agenda elsewhere, you miscreant.

  65. 65
    Posted by guest | July 25, 2008 at 4:56 PM

    #63 Guest…
    I didn’t bring up obama. the clown @#44 who posted his picture did.
    My use of the word “moslem” is a sign of my “disrespect” for ALL that is “moslamic”.
    BTW, I’m going on vaction. I’ll be offline until mid-August.
    Later.
    The Guy from Delaware

  66. 66
    Posted by guest | July 25, 2008 at 5:03 PM

    Well, praise Allah, the incestuous hick from Delaware is gone. Let’s hope he dies on vacation.

  67. 67
    Posted by guest | July 25, 2008 at 5:55 PM

    @ 65: Have fun. I’ve got your back where you’re out!
    The Other Guy From Delaware

  68. 68
    Posted by guest | July 25, 2008 at 6:03 PM

    TGFD/TOGFD are one and the same person, and now we know he is also posting in an fake Indian identity. Fabulous.
    Btw, he said in a post the other day he was leaving on vacation July 26. Mid-August? That gives us only a few weeks of peace. However, I bet he’s going to start posting as TOGFD during the “vacation” period, to try to convince us that they’re separate people.
    It’s good for TGFD to hear that a number of people find his postings worthless and uninformed. And it’s true that once he shows up, a thread is dead. The deadliest of all are the unbelievably stupid TGFD/TOGFD bank-and-forth posts.
    On top of all of his other offenses against educated opinion, common sense, and good taste, he now emerges as a know-nothing that persists in believing that Obama is a Muslim. Hey, I’m not crazy about Obama, but I just don’t believe Obama is a Muslim. Sorry, conspiracy theorists.

  69. 69
    Posted by guest | July 25, 2008 at 6:05 PM

    See 67. He beat me to the punch. The horror of this idiot.

  70. 70
    Posted by guest | July 25, 2008 at 6:30 PM

    @ 68: Honest to God, we’re not the same person. TGFD appears to live in Chateau country as we call it here in Delaware. I live in Newark, home of the Fighting Blue Hens.
    TOGFD

  71. 71
    Posted by guest | July 25, 2008 at 8:03 PM

    #68
    why do you usually post as “guest” and some times “BL?

  72. 72
    Posted by guest | July 25, 2008 at 11:31 PM

    Let’s not forget that Semgroup was levered up by the best and brightest at Bank of America, the all american bank. yay America’s Cheer, Olympics, Ken Lewis, yay! I so hope they get hooked on a large chunk of this shit debt.

  73. 73
    Posted by guest | July 27, 2008 at 5:56 PM

    I am Amit from India,
    is that true that hooters are hookers?
    i love america and blondes,
    in my village women dress too much,
    I love US porn.

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