Write-Offs: 05.18.12
$$$G8 leaders urged to focus talks on growth [FT]
$$$JPMorgan Returned $168M To MF Global, Trustee Says [Bloomberg]
$$$Chesapeake Cuts Board Compensation [WSJ]
$$$ Ben Horowitz: MBAs aren't as bad as everyone thinks [PandoDaily]
$$$ Bloomberg TV's Matt Miller vents about Nasdaq FB glitches to NYSE traders [Bloomberg TV]
$$$Boston radio talk show host Howie Carr released evidence that appears to confirm [Elizabeth] Warren may have plagiarized at least three of the five recipes she submitted to the 1984 Pow Wow Chow cookbook edited by her cousin Candy Rowsey. Two of the possibly plagiarized recipes, said in the Pow Wow Chow cookbook to have been passed down through generations of Oklahoma Native American members of the Cherokee tribe, are described in a New York Times News Service story as originating at Le Pavilion, a fabulously expensive French restaurant in Manhattan. The dishes were said to be particular favorites of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor and Cole Porter. The two recipes, "Cold Omelets with Crab Meat" and "Crab with Tomato Mayonnaise Dressing," appear in an article titled “Cold Omelets with Crab Meat,” written by Pierre Franey of the New York Times News Service that was published in the August 22, 1979 edition of the Virgin Islands Daily News ... [Breitbart via DI]
$$$ Morgan Stanley is looking for a VP in Global Regulatory Policy in New York [DBCC]
$$$JPMorgan to be haunted by change in risk model [Reuters]
$$$JPMorgan unit has $100bn of risky bonds [FT]
$$$Galleon prosecutor aims to cement legacy in U.S. Gupta trial
$$$The government should fine the hell out of Rajat Gupta instead of criminally prosecuting him [Slate]
$$$Cannibal allowed to leave mental hospital for a stroll, just four years after he beheaded and ate sleeping bus passenger [Daily Mail]