He was just doing it out of the kindness of his heart. And the tightness in his pants.
The former Moffatt readily admitted to while pleading guilty yesterday, telling the judge he he violated securities laws because he wanted he knew “the information would be helpful to Chiesi in performing her job.” The latter theory we came to on our own, based on the fact that a) Moffatt received no money for passing his hot tips on to Chiesi (who he described as a “friend”) and b) the noted allure of Danielle’s “short skirts, low-cut tops and red fishnet stockings,” plus her moves on the dance floor (“One of [Chiesi's] ploys was to go barhopping with a group, and then peel someone off to talk to on the dance floor, says a person who attended conferences with her”). Apparently so strong is the bond of friendship between Moffatt and Chiesi that he’s refusing to cooperate with prosecutors in going after her (or Raj). Also, there’s this:

After the short hearing, Moffat stood outside the courthouse crying in light rain as photographers snapped photos of him.

Ex-IBM exec Moffat: I was just helping pal [NYP]

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Comments (28)

  1. Posted by Moffat Top | March 30, 2010 at 11:15 AM

    I did it all for the nookie.

  2. Posted by Anonymous | March 30, 2010 at 11:20 AM

    her?

  3. Posted by Anonymous | March 30, 2010 at 11:22 AM

    *IBM

  4. Posted by Anonymous | March 30, 2010 at 11:30 AM

    There needs to be a “fishnets on former hotties” tag or something.

    -Guy who thinks of tags, or something.

  5. Posted by Anonymous | March 30, 2010 at 11:33 AM

    crying in the light rain is the new killing it

  6. Posted by Anonymous | March 30, 2010 at 11:39 AM

    @2 FTW (assuming that was an AD reference)

  7. Posted by Anonymous | March 30, 2010 at 11:39 AM

    what, is she funny or something?

  8. Posted by Anonymous | March 30, 2010 at 11:41 AM

    Ulysses Everett McGill: Deceitful, two-faced she-woman. Never trust a female Delmar, remember that one simple precept and your time with me will not have been ill spent.

    Delmar O’Donnell: Ok, Everett.

    Ulysses Everett McGill: Hit by a train! Truth means nothing to a woman, Delmar. Triumph of the subjective. You ever been with a woman?

    Delmar O’Donnell: Well, I… I… I gotta get the family farm back before I can start thinking about that.

    Ulysses Everett McGill: That’s right, if then. Believe me Delmar, woman is the most fiendish instrument of torture ever devised to bedevil the days of man.

  9. Posted by guest | March 30, 2010 at 11:44 AM

    If he’s crying now imagine when he’s getting the Ping Jiang treatment in prison…….that’ll break his heart alright….

  10. Posted by Anonymous | March 30, 2010 at 12:00 PM

    @9 – I’m not sure they allow markers or highlighters in prison.

  11. Posted by Anonymous | March 30, 2010 at 12:00 PM

    that guy would have to be really desperate to go after that slob

  12. Posted by Tax Chick | March 30, 2010 at 12:03 PM

    @11 – He ain’t that much of a looker himself. Beggers can’t be choosers… just sayin.

  13. Posted by Anonymous | March 30, 2010 at 12:07 PM

    I did it for Anal_yst.

    -a passover admirer of your work

  14. Posted by trojan | March 30, 2010 at 12:08 PM

    +/- Brigitte Nielsen circa Flav

  15. Posted by CoveredLong | March 30, 2010 at 12:09 PM

    @1 – The what?

  16. Posted by Tax Chick | March 30, 2010 at 12:19 PM

    @CL – I see what you did there.

  17. Posted by Anal_yst | March 30, 2010 at 12:20 PM

    @13

    Flattery will get you everywhere.

    –guilted into going to seder in NJ tonight, bah

  18. Posted by Anonymous | March 30, 2010 at 12:24 PM

    Once agains, sex gets in the way of finance and look at what happens. One minute your a BSD spanking the ass of some chippie like the bottom of an empty, opaque salt shaker and the next you’re weeping on the steps of the Federal Courthouse. And it was partly because of the best hard pounding, sweat slinging, guttoral noise making, breathless sweet grunting on the way to a personal countdown to the end of the best 2 minutes of your sex life. Is that all there is? Seriously. Is that all?

    ~Sigmund Freud

  19. Posted by HeadlessHorseman | March 30, 2010 at 12:26 PM

    The lengths to which some men will go in an effort to sate a taboo beastiality fantasy. Tsk tsk.

  20. Posted by ChaPlease | March 30, 2010 at 12:35 PM

    You beast. You savage. Bark like a dog for me, come on bark like a dog.

  21. Posted by Pfluger the Barbarian | March 30, 2010 at 12:36 PM

    I can’t stand dese BSDs dat make lame excuses when dey get cawt wit dare hands in da fuckin’ cannoli box. I neva make any excuses, cuz I don’t need to. My join-a-listic standids is beyond fuckin’ reproach. Dats why my critics fear me.

    - Thug

  22. Posted by kung fu grip | March 30, 2010 at 12:41 PM

    Wouldn’t hit that for practice – what a dope

  23. Posted by Seaman Bodine | March 30, 2010 at 12:54 PM

    We’ve got a pond, and a pool. Pond would be good for you.

  24. Posted by Anonymous | March 30, 2010 at 1:14 PM

    She sucked it out of him. I know, I get my info this way all the time.
    Maria B.

  25. Posted by Former blue | April 5, 2010 at 4:29 PM

    What’s wrong Bob? Killing European sales and killing the PC business wasn’t good enough for you? You had to go for the whole enchalada?

  26. Posted by Former blue | April 6, 2010 at 10:36 AM

    What a shocker … an IBM exec with no morals or ethics !

  27. Posted by The Thin Blue Line | April 21, 2010 at 10:35 PM

    Hey ..leave my man Bobby alone….. like I always say… the only people who’s opinion I value are the one’s making me money. Who’s going to stuff the coffers with cheap labor now that he’s gone….mmmm.. get Joanne on the line..stat!

    -Sammy the “Pee”

    *Most oft used quote at Somers in last 6 months – “Bob Moffat? .. I would say hello in the hallway, but did not really know the guy”

  28. Posted by exbear | May 26, 2010 at 7:01 PM

    so essentially he paid her

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