“When I think about what is happening in Washington right now, I think of the expression that was used in Wall Street a long time ago, which is that we are up to our knees in midgets. That is what I think about when I think about Washington right now, and I guess that is a terrible thing to say, but the fact that we are one week away from a pseudo- default is a reflection of the fact that Washington is less than a place of great intellectual wisdom.” [BloombergTV]
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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. Continue reading »
Fired Morgan Stanley Trader And Small Person Lover Appears To Have Found Ways To Pass The Time
By Bess LevinSpartanburg County, S.C., sheriff’s deputies told WXII sister station WYFF that they were called to a Motel 6 on Sunday night after a guest nearly punched through to the next room with a wrench. When deputies arrived, 73-year-old Joseph Jones told them someone had called his room about 11 p.m. and said he was a manager at the motel. Jones said the male caller told him the previous guest had installed highly sophisticated cameras in his room. The caller told Jones not to bother looking for them and instead, the caller would instruct him on how to get rid of the cameras…Next, he was told to remove the back toilet cover and to smash the TV with it. He did and the cover shattered without breaking the TV screen, so he was instructed to throw the TV outside. Jones did as he was instructed. At some point, according to the report, Jones gave the caller his cell number so he did not have to keep running back to the room phone…Jones said the caller then said that a “midget” who was 4 feet 3 inches tall was barricaded in the room next to him and that he needed to help police get to him. With that, the report said, Jones took his wrench and began to break away the wallboard behind the room door. He broke through to the next room, but then stopped due to complaints from other guests about the loud noises. [WXII, previously]
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