True, French bankers are masters of the disdainful frown, delivered with great poise and bitterness even when breaking the news that the client’s entire fortune was, in fact, invested with Bernie Madoff. But even among these captains of the curmudgeon, occasionally a standout emerges. In the case of the SocGen insider trading probe, we are introduced to the art’s newest grandmaster: Jean-Pierre Mustier, and behind-the-scenes side-kick, Robert Day.
The proceedings against the two men come after an investigation by the regulator, the Autorite des Marches Financiers, or AMF, into SocGen’s financial information and the trading of its shares. The investigation began in January 2008.
Mr. Mustier was in charge of SocGen’s corporate and investment bank at the time of a €4.9 billion trading scandal that rocked the bank in January 2008. After the scandal the bank made him head of the asset management and investment services division.
We are certain Mr. Mustier’s legal representatives will try to encourage him to adopt a somewhat brighter appearance, but who can blame him? If you were being investigated by a national chain of bowling centers, you’d look a bit sour too.
SocGen Executive Mustier Leaves Amid Trading Probe [The Wall Street Journal]
I fart in your face, EP.
So, you think you could outclever us French folks with your silly, knees-bent, running-about, advancing behavior? I wave my private parts at your Aunties you cheesy-leather, second-hand, electric donkey bottom biters.
He looks like a French Mr. Bean.
heh
SocGen rocks!
Alumnus
@2 Crazy French people from MP FTW!
Wow, Bess leaving for a week is turning out worse than I expected.
Your mother was a hamster and your father smelled of elderberries!
Your mother was a hamster and your father smelled of elderberries!
the headline and first picture were enough for me…well done
but two pictures, good god, now that’s the type of compensation i like to see
Its just a flesh wound.
Sacre Bleu Fromage!
I swear I just saw one of the Noel sisters on Greenwich Ave.
The policeman riding her seemed to have a gentle touch with the crop.
MERDE!
@7 If you have been a regular for any length of time, you would’ve known exactly what to expect.
That sly shoutout to the advertisers y’day was an acknowledgment that traffic cratered like the SP500 in March.
Ziss is zee outrage, non? Apres moi tu can besse mi derriere!!
~Pepe Le Peu
John- Pierre Mustier looks like he just discoved that pissoir on Rue du Douche has a hole in the bottom of the trough he was standing in front of.
JP is my hero.
Big yeah! esp. in MW-inspired spiel.
BlackPoint
I never expected Bess to be so valuable to DB. Without Bess, DB sucks!
Pierre Mustier requires a new honorific after his name. I christin him henceforth Le Douche Royale!