Write-Offs: 05.01.12
$$$McClendon to Step Down as Chesapeake Chairman [WSJ]
$$$Buyout Kings Size Up Their Sector, the Elections and Europe [DealBook]
$$$NYPD Raids Activists’ Homes Before May Day Protests [Gawker]
$$$ How would you like to run Goldman Sachs's Twitter feed? [Finextra via FTAV]
$$$ Or I guess you could just be a hedge fund analyst at a fund of funds in New York [DBCC]
$$$Banks fined $9.1m over mis-selling of ETFs [FT]
$$$Facebook IPO Docs Could Get Approval This Week, Followed by Road Show With Zuckerberg (No Guarantee on Tie) [AllThingsD]
$$$US Lawmaker Bachus Cleared in Insider Trade Probe [Reuters]
$$$ Why can you only hedge jet crack spread by buying a refinery? [Slate / Matt Yglesias]
$$$ The life of an interdealer broker is noisy [HITC]
$$$ "The Wall Street bull is being guarded by 8 cops" [HunterW via Heidi Moore]
$$$ "A Polish woman is facing three years in prison after she removed all of her ex-boyfriend's teeth during dental surgery just days after their breakup." [Yahoo]