Write-Offs: 05.12.11
$$$Facebook Busted in Clumsy Smear on Google (Daily Beast)
$$$ Dick Bove: Lloyd Blankfein's Uncertain Future at Goldman (Fox Business)
$$$ Apollo earnings up, in first report since IPO (Reuters)
$$$Glencore CEO Says Commodities Market Still Strong (CNBC)
$$$ Kyle Bass: 'Greece Is Bankrupt' and Will Restructure (CNBC)
$$$Leucadia Said to Join Centerbridge in Bid for Citigroup Consumer-Loan Unit (Bloomberg)
$$$Silver Lake Recruits Credit Suisse Banker Bryce Lee for Clean-Energy Fund (Bloomberg)
$$$Initial Jobless Claims in U.S. Fell 44,000 Last Week (Bloomberg)
$$$ Foreclosures Fall To 40 Month Low -- Due To Paperwork Delays, Not Recovery (HuffPo)
$$$Oil Chiefs Lash Out Against Tax Proposal (NYT)
$$$Regulators Defend Financial Revamp Efforts (WSJ)
$$$ Treasury expected to hold off on further GM stock sales until August at earliest (AP via WaPo)
$$$ Philip Morris CEO says it's 'not that hard' to quit cigarettes (LA Times)
$$$ Lindsay Lohan gets 120 days in theft of necklace (LA Times)