• 15 Jul 2011 at 11:11 AM

Vincent McCrudden Wasn’t Being Literal When He Put 47 US Regulators On His ‘To Kill’ List (Even Though He’s Not The Only One Who Wants Them Dead)

By Bess Levin

Remember Vincent McCrudden? He’s the guy who arrested in January after years spent threatening to murder, among others, Mary Schapiro, Richard Ketchum, Gary Gensler and various other SEC and CFTC officials. In one email to a CFTC staffer he wrote, “You fucking corrupt piece of shit! I have let so many of you fucking corrupt mother fuckers off the hook for doing this to my life. You my friend are not getting away with this. I am going to do this my way no and you, you corrupt mother fucking piece of shit are the first on my list! laugh mother fucker…I am going to make you a test case!” In another, vivid imagery involving a midget was used. In yet another, the chief operating officer of the NFA was told “It wasn’t ever a question of ‘if’ I was going to kill you, it was just of when.” For a while, McCrudden also had an “execution” list on his website and encouraged people to help him cross the 47 names off the list, telling them, “Go buy a gun, and let’s get to work in taking back our country from these criminals. I will be the first one to lead by example.”

Vincent is set to be tried next week and his attorney has come up with a two part defense: 1) everyone wants to see US financial regulators dead. 2) McCrudden wasn’t threatening so much as he was dialoguing about the flaws in the regulatory system.

McCrudden wants “to introduce evidence that there is an ardent and vocal community of people within the financial world who believe (rightly or wrongly) that these organizations are corrupt and/or inept,” his lawyer wrote in a court filing this month…McCrudden’s lawyer, Bruce A. Barket, said in a filing the information would put his client’s comments “in the context of an ongoing public discussion about the honesty and efficacy of the financial regulatory system” to determine whether they were true threats or political opinion.

Pretty simple, really. Not sure why anyone interpreted “You corrupt mother fucking piece of shit are the first on my list! I am going to make you a test case” as an actual threat. Anyway, if everyone who’s thought similarly about not wanting to let “so many of [these] fucking corrupt mother fuckers off the hook” could come forward at this time, that’d be a big help.

Former Fund Manager Wants to Show Shared Hatred of Regulators at Trial [Bloomberg]

Comments (26)

  1. 1
    Posted by Anonymous | July 15, 2011 at 3:21 PM

    Was that wrong / should I not have done that?

  2. 2
    Posted by Guest | July 15, 2011 at 3:41 PM

    I have no concerns with Vincent’s actions.nn- Danny McGrath, Knibb High, class of ’84

  3. 3
    Posted by Brian1284 | July 15, 2011 at 3:49 PM

    I hope no one finds my fuck/marry/kill list.u00a0

  4. 4
    Posted by Guest2 | July 15, 2011 at 3:50 PM

    I like that this is not the first Dealbreaker article to use the tag midget

  5. 5
    Posted by Brian1284 | July 15, 2011 at 3:57 PM

    Small Cap Analyst nnRaj

  6. 6
    Posted by MVP3 | July 15, 2011 at 3:57 PM

    nnA solid defense… and a solid chance of Dealbreaker comments being mentionednin Barket’s closing argument.nu00a0nn

  7. 7
    Posted by guest | July 15, 2011 at 4:05 PM

    Dear DealBreaker,nnDo masochistic psychosexual fantasies count? I don’t think I have any other strong political opinions. Except about taxes, of course. Those are bad. nnSincerely,nCurious in NYC

  8. 8
    Posted by Guest | July 15, 2011 at 4:06 PM

    Mary Schapiro knows nothing, NOTHING.nn- Cramer

  9. 9
    Posted by Jeff Macke, Jr. | July 15, 2011 at 4:09 PM

    This guy is my hero.u00a0 Well, him and the Car People.

  10. 10
    Posted by trojan | July 15, 2011 at 4:09 PM

    Ja!n-Sgt. Schultz

  11. 11
    Posted by Anonymous | July 15, 2011 at 4:10 PM

    In order to get past this, I am willing to let the porn watchers at the SEC off the hook. The rest of the corrupt motherfuckers…not so much.

  12. 12
    Posted by E Harmony CFA | July 15, 2011 at 4:13 PM

    Vince McCrudden, meet Phil McCracken.u00a0 I thought you two might get along.u00a0

  13. 13
    Posted by Beware of the Sovereigns | July 15, 2011 at 4:18 PM

    Has McCrudden ever apologized — in writing — for being a such dumbass? u00a0His writing makes him look like a “sovereign citizen” to me. u00a0″60 Minutes” had a piece on sovereigns a while back that was scary.u00a0

  14. 14
    Posted by 25th Hour Trader | July 15, 2011 at 4:19 PM

    Those who can’t kill, talk. u00a0nn-OJ “The Juice” Simpsonu00a0

  15. 15
    Posted by Guest | July 15, 2011 at 4:21 PM

    No big deal. u00a0This happens all the time around here.nn-Permian basin roughneck & physical oil “trader” w/ concealed carry permit

  16. 16
    Posted by Guest | July 15, 2011 at 4:31 PM

    Ha!

  17. 17
    Posted by Guest | July 15, 2011 at 4:32 PM

    getting prosecuted for empty threats towards fin. regulators is the NKI

  18. 18
    Posted by Best Oil Trader in Houston | July 15, 2011 at 4:34 PM

    Hey, if you’ve got Skype at your workstation, let’s connect and you can show me the hog’s leg you got concealed in your pocket. u00a0Then you can just wave it in front of your computer camera at your trade room workstation so I can see all the fine details. u00a0

  19. 19
    Posted by Anonymous | July 15, 2011 at 4:38 PM

    Not nnSorry. I’m new here and my IPad doesn’t seem to know how to post. Should I get a 9900 Bold instead?

  20. 20
    Posted by Anonymous | July 15, 2011 at 4:42 PM

    Not just closing arguments. Barket should hire a bunch of recently retrenched Wall St workers and get them to trawl through DB comments as evidence that this kind of vitriol is common place.

  21. 21
    Posted by Something | July 15, 2011 at 5:00 PM

    I’m sorry officer, I didn’t know I couldn’t do that.n – D. Chappelle

  22. 22
    Posted by Guest | July 15, 2011 at 5:02 PM

    Are you asking me to show you how things are done out west?

  23. 23
    Posted by Curious Guest | July 15, 2011 at 5:23 PM

    I too clicked through to see what else was tagged “midget”

  24. 24
    Posted by Guest | July 15, 2011 at 5:25 PM

    Hey!nn- McLovin

  25. 25
    Posted by Momentus | July 15, 2011 at 6:33 PM

    This just doesn’t seem extreme to me.nn–Guy who drives a 96 Corvette

  26. 26
    Posted by Nuff Said | July 15, 2011 at 11:50 PM

    Gabby Gifford.

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