So hey, there are Russian spies among us! Ten to be exact, who were busted yesterday by the Justice Department because apparently the US is not cool with that sort of thing. Before they were arrested, said Ruskies carried out their mission using code words, invisible ink, brush passes, microphone plants and folded newspapers to pass off money. Also! One of the spies, code name: Cynthia Murphy, apparently had a whole bunch of “work-related personal meetings with” and “cultivated the friendship of” an unnamed “prominent New York–based financier active in politics” and “could invite her to party headquarters.”
This could pretty much be anyone, as lots of people probably consider themselves “prominent New York-based financiers active in politics” (though that’s how the Russians described the guy, so it narrows things down slightly). But I’m interested to see who you think it is. Rampant speculation encouraged.
10 alleged Russian secret agents arrested in US [AP via DI]
Russian Spy Ring [Telegraph]
Dan Akroyd
Lenny.
THERES A MICROPHONE IN THE TWIZZLER!!!!!!!1!!!1!1
Look who’s back. Will he be fired from Twitter?
http://www.twitter.com/zkouwe
@3 hi, love the enthusiasm but this post is about ruskies and a ny-based financier. unless zk is relevant to that subject (and maybe he is!), I don’t give a shit.
it could only be Biff Basness
Shia LaBeouf
Anyone else would have been a waste of time.
Gaspo – goomba thing is just an act.
Anal_yst
In Soviet Russia, Cynthia Murphy liaise you!
First, classic what ZK put up on twitter re: ruthless commenters!
Second, and more importantly – Bess you are a goddess among mortals. A perfect Rounders quote (from Worm nonetheless) as a tag!
Bess – tell Lat you are taking the rest of the day off as you have already made it a great day.
Geez, at this rate of fall, Steve Rattner will be banished to Siberia.
This will bring Soros DOWN! Just like Hugh Hendry said.
Lloyd blankfein. Brush passes outside of congressional testimony?
I think I know who it is…and he has a Harvard Extension School degree to boot. Very ambitious, almost for is own good.
Wait for it… . FBI will conveniently use this lot as a scapegoat for the Flash Crash of 20-10. Fits nicely in the storyline and gets Barney Frank off their backs, which is a dangerous position for him to be in from the male agents’ perspective.
An alleged “super hot” spy : http://celebrity-gossip.net/anna-chapman/russian-spy-beauties-get-busted-382134.
Russian spies are the fucking rake.
Red headed russian spies are the fucking rake.
Since when does a young, cross-eyed Monica Seles look-alike qualify as “super hot”?! T on an S must be super jealous!
@19 Rusky pussy > your mother’s pussy
Say, that Aleksey Vayner feller, did he strike you all as kinda spy-like in a Maxwell Smart sorta way?
Krusty: “…There’s just one thing. Are you guys any good at covering up youthful and middle-aged indiscretions?”
Burns: “Are these indiscretions romantic, financial or treasonous?”
Krusty: “Russian hooker, you tell me.”
Shony
So Cynthia Murphy = Pussy Galore….
She looks 15. In a bad way.
My objective? Well I object to taking a girl out, you know, and buying her dinner and then she won’t put out for you.
@ 20 Wait, so you fucked your own mother, and a Russian broad, and have come to the conclusion that the Russian had the nicer vag? Man, your mom is going to be really upset when she finds out…
She did live in NJ, i am guessing Corzine, i know , i know not a NY Financier, but ex Goldman, and some of his friends. BTW doesn’t Goldman have Russian Oil Interests?
“Go ahead, try to run a spy ring here like you have on the American people for so long! You’re part of a dying breed, you spying Russkies, like people who can name all fifty states! The truth hurts, doesn’t it, Ruskies? Oh sure, maybe not as much as landing on a bicycle with the seat missing, but it hurts! Spying is a complicated craft and, like a blind man at an orgy, I am going to have to feel my way through this new matter. Like a midget at a urinal, I am going to have to stay on my toes.”
~Frank Drebin
Spy Squad
@Bess great Rounders tag
Um, these “spies” sound alot like pretty much every Russian in NYC: over-stating themselves/their friends, going to “hot” parties, having shady meetings, etc, etc…
Harold Ford Jr? But wait, do carpetbaggers count?
@Anal_lyst– too true. If they were any good, the hedge fund would be paying them more money than the Russian govt, hence the market would price them out of spook biz.
My guess is that they are escort girls trying to evade taxes.
@31 In Soviet Russia, you do not have shady meetings, shady meetings have you.
Ron Perelman
@22 FTW.
@29 honorable mention.
being a russian sky – the new killing it
@33
Your guess is probably at least partially true.
@22 for the win!
Bloomberg?
@3/ Re: Z. Cherry Kow on twitter– report him for spam. If enough people do it, he will get fired from there as well.
i’m sure they were just talking about pirogies and snow
@15 – you know too much…
@33 – you are probably correct, unless it is sort of Russian Psycho where they get off by being smarter than the capitalist hyenas… Playing them like violins, going down to their deepest & raw psyche, and then threatening to post the video online for the world to see.
The alternative to this approach is brute force & a kipjatilnik up the bum (feels like a glass dildo, at first). Be grateful it’s the sexy chicks/guys…
Its clearly Obama