• 11 Sep 2009 at 5:00 PM

Write-Offs: 09.11.09

$$$ Citigroup is the ‘Bank of the Future‘ [The Deal]
$$$ Mack And Gorman Address The Troops: “Yes, there were tears.” [Dealbook]
$$$ Jamie Dimon: America’s Most Important Banker [Newsweek]
$$$ Value Line sets aside $48 million for SEC deal [MW]
$$$ Job of the week: Morgan Stanley needs an investment bank vice-president. You. [DB Career Center]
$$$ Bernie’s penthouse– on Lex priced at $9.9 million [NYP]

Comments (39)

  1. Posted by JD | September 11, 2009 at 5:56 PM

    America’s most important? Just America? WTF?

  2. Posted by guest | September 11, 2009 at 6:04 PM

    Brazil: the country of the future.

  3. Posted by guest | September 11, 2009 at 6:12 PM

    JD

  4. Posted by guest | September 11, 2009 at 6:15 PM

    Jamie-D, it’s good to see that you’re keeping your HTML skills sharp – word! Now go fetch my drink, dork!

  5. Posted by guest | September 11, 2009 at 6:43 PM
  6. Posted by Anal_yst | September 11, 2009 at 6:57 PM

    We Da Best!
    –DJ Khalid/Vikram (in unison)

  7. Posted by Dr. Louis Ziccareli | September 11, 2009 at 7:01 PM

    You finance guys make me laugh.

  8. Posted by guest | September 11, 2009 at 7:18 PM

    Is JD going to head Citi now?

  9. Posted by guest | September 11, 2009 at 7:57 PM

    JD gets the title. Once again, Lloyd plays the GS card and stays back. Stay under the radar as much as possible. And win.
    Fuck the limelight, the goal is to make as much money as possible.
    Lloyd eats guys like Jamie for breakfast.

  10. Posted by guest | September 11, 2009 at 8:00 PM

    I eat collies like JD for breakfast.
    Dennis Kneale

  11. Posted by guest | September 11, 2009 at 8:12 PM
  12. Posted by guest | September 11, 2009 at 8:19 PM

    @11. Attention whores are boring.
    -a man

  13. Posted by guest | September 11, 2009 at 9:33 PM

    Wells Fargo Exec Squats in Foreclosed $12 Million Malibu Beach House
    http://bit.ly/ke9ho

  14. Posted by guest | September 11, 2009 at 11:15 PM

    @11 and…? One figures (s)he would have felt right at home: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xbmxw6befyQ

  15. Posted by no_slappz | September 12, 2009 at 9:57 AM

    Few CEOs and assistant henchmen have been as loathed as Jean Buttner and Dave Henigson of Value Line. The stories go back 20 years. Coverage can be found in the Wall Street Journal, Business Week, Newsweek, NY Times, The NY Observer (Chris Byron).
    Cheers broke out around Wall Street when the following news appeared. Thousands of Wall Streeters who got their starts at Value Line were thrilled to read about the smackdown of Buttner and Henigson, two of the most detested people ever to head a business.
    As all current and former employers will state, due to the bone-headed ineptitude of Buttner and Henigson, Value Line missed out on all the good developments of the last 20 years, and instead, focused on harrassing employees about keeping their desks neat and clean.

  16. Posted by mcc | September 12, 2009 at 12:31 PM
  17. Posted by guest | September 12, 2009 at 4:51 PM

    Breaking news! Danny Pang is dead.
    Life IS too short to make it rain on fat chicks.

  18. Posted by guest | September 12, 2009 at 6:43 PM

    He will not be missed … well, … except by the people he bilked.

  19. Posted by trojan | September 13, 2009 at 12:34 AM

    hahaha buckeyes

  20. Posted by Chaz | September 13, 2009 at 3:12 PM

    I got chunks of guys like you in my Stool!

  21. Posted by Seaman Bodine II | September 13, 2009 at 3:48 PM

    Seaman Bodine’s New Reference Dictionary
    Entry:
    Douche Bag -
    New Yorkers that come to the Berkshires and insist on hiking with ski poles.

  22. Posted by guest | September 13, 2009 at 11:21 PM

    God I love the way the MS Cheerleaders always brag that Mack saved the company a year ago, kind of neglecting the fact that it was his recklessness that put them in that position in the first place. They dude thought he was losing $3 Billion one week (with Zoe his heir apparent) and losing $11 Billion the next, with Zoe out the door. Clown didn’t even know his exposure!
    Kind of the same as dropping a half dozen steamers on the floor of your office and then bragging that you mopped up two of the turds. Ridiculous!

  23. Posted by guest | September 13, 2009 at 11:21 PM

    God I love the way the MS Cheerleaders always brag that Mack saved the company a year ago, kind of neglecting the fact that it was his recklessness that put them in that position in the first place. They dude thought he was losing $3 Billion one week (with Zoe his heir apparent) and losing $11 Billion the next, with Zoe out the door. Clown didn’t even know his exposure!
    Kind of the same as dropping a half dozen steamers on the floor of your office and then bragging that you mopped up two of the turds. Ridiculous!

  24. Posted by guest | September 13, 2009 at 11:22 PM

    God I love the way the MS Cheerleaders always brag that Mack saved the company a year ago, kind of neglecting the fact that it was his recklessness that put them in that position in the first place. They dude thought he was losing $3 Billion one week (with Zoe his heir apparent) and losing $11 Billion the next, with Zoe out the door. Clown didn’t even know his exposure!
    Kind of the same as dropping a half dozen steamers on the floor of your office and then bragging that you mopped up two of the turds. Ridiculous!

  25. Posted by Porker Stanklesberry | September 13, 2009 at 11:34 PM

    You know what I like? Triple posters. Not patient enough to wait after clicking once, they persist in the hope of seeing their wisdom on the interwebs. Their joy at seeing it three times therefore, must be manifold. If that’s what it takes to bring a bit of light into a dark life, triple post on bitches!!

  26. Posted by Porker Stanklesberry | September 13, 2009 at 11:35 PM

    You know what I like? Triple posters. Not patient enough to wait after clicking once, they persist in the hope of seeing their wisdom on the interwebs. Their joy at seeing it three times therefore, must be manifold. If that’s what it takes to bring a bit of light into a dark life, triple post on bitches!!

  27. Posted by Porker Stanklesberry | September 13, 2009 at 11:36 PM

    And once more for the win:
    You know what I like? Triple posters. Not patient enough to wait after clicking once, they persist in the hope of seeing their wisdom on the interwebs. Their joy at seeing it three times therefore, must be manifold. If that’s what it takes to bring a bit of light into a dark life, triple post on bitches!!

  28. Posted by Porker Stankleberry | September 14, 2009 at 1:13 AM

    I, for one, would be very curious to hear if there are any opinions out there about the MS Cheerleaders.

  29. Posted by guest | September 14, 2009 at 6:20 AM

    MS Cheerleaders are pretty fucking fugly

  30. Posted by guest | September 14, 2009 at 6:29 AM

    MS Cheerleaders are pretty fucking fugly

  31. Posted by wcburrs87 | September 14, 2009 at 7:11 AM

    Bloomberg says Danny Pang’s autopsy shows no signs of foul…someone must’ve actually paid for a real hit man for once instead of picking one out from the home depot parking lot.

  32. Posted by wcburrs87 | September 14, 2009 at 7:24 AM

    foul play*. Too many irish coffees this morning, sorry gang. Should’ve stuck with my wake up mimosa.

  33. Posted by guest | September 14, 2009 at 7:32 AM

    ‘wcburrs87, I want you to know we are in a Ponzi scheme.’

  34. Posted by prince | September 14, 2009 at 7:33 AM

    Bess,
    Whatever happened to the “First Portfolio” his march 3 market call seems almost omniscient now :-)

  35. Posted by guest | September 14, 2009 at 8:30 AM

    for @15 no_slappz
    As another Value Line alum, let me add my congratulations to the SEC for finally banning Jean Buttner and Dave Henigson from the business for life. That investigation only took five years!

  36. Posted by guest | October 18, 2009 at 11:39 AM

    The settlement proposed will not be accepted by the SEC for the following reasons:
    1) This was a criminal, mob-like operation that snubbed its nose at fiduciary duty and spanned over twenty years in which Jean B. Buttner, Howard A. Brecher, David T. Henigson and Stephen R. Anastasio et al skimmed 2-3 cents off every trade made by the Value line mutual funds. 2) No mention is made of the disappearance of millions in 12b-1 fees.
    3) No mention is made as to wether the NYS AG’s office is investigating how Value Line end up with $145 million of New York state Retirement Money to “manage.”
    4) No mention is made regarding the role Micheal Winicki played in all this. Winicki was the Searle & Company accountant and Hevesi campaign treasurer who booked all the illegal kickbacks middleman and Alan Hevesi advisor Hank Morris reaped.
    The final chapter has yet to be written on Buttner & company, But rest assured it will mention the F.B.I.

  37. Posted by guest | October 18, 2009 at 11:40 AM

    The settlement proposed will not be accepted by the SEC for the following reasons:
    1) This was a criminal, mob-like operation that snubbed its nose at fiduciary duty and spanned over twenty years in which Jean B. Buttner, Howard A. Brecher, David T. Henigson and Stephen R. Anastasio et al skimmed 2-3 cents off every trade made by the Value line mutual funds. 2) No mention is made of the disappearance of millions in 12b-1 fees.
    3) No mention is made as to wether the NYS AG’s office is investigating how Value Line end up with $145 million of New York state Retirement Money to “manage.”
    4) No mention is made regarding the role Micheal Winicki played in all this. Winicki was the Searle & Company accountant and Hevesi campaign treasurer who booked all the illegal kickbacks middleman and Alan Hevesi advisor Hank Morris reaped.
    The final chapter has yet to be written on Buttner & company, But rest assured it will mention the F.B.I.

  38. Posted by Dino | October 18, 2009 at 11:41 AM

    The settlement proposed will not be accepted by the SEC for the following reasons:
    1) This was a criminal, mob-like operation that snubbed its nose at fiduciary duty and spanned over twenty years in which Jean B. Buttner, Howard A. Brecher, David T. Henigson and Stephen R. Anastasio et al skimmed 2-3 cents off every trade made by the Value line mutual funds. 2) No mention is made of the disappearance of millions in 12b-1 fees.
    3) No mention is made as to wether the NYS AG’s office is investigating how Value Line end up with $145 million of New York state Retirement Money to “manage.”
    4) No mention is made regarding the role Micheal Winicki played in all this. Winicki was the Searle & Company accountant and Hevesi campaign treasurer who booked all the illegal kickbacks middleman and Alan Hevesi advisor Hank Morris reaped.
    The final chapter has yet to be written on Buttner & company, But rest assured it will mention the F.B.I.

  39. Posted by guest | October 25, 2009 at 1:20 PM

    The Value Line story may have a lot more to be revealed. Buttner and Henigson must of had the support of attorneys, officers, directors, accountants, traders, fund officers and board members, politicians and portfolio managers to pull off skimming fraud lasting over 20 years and totaling over 48 million by Value Line count…
    The SEC/DOJ may file this week, because if the overcharging aka skimming ended in Novemeber 2004 as stated in the Value Line filings with the SEC, this week could mark the end of the 5 years statute of limitations.

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