Write-Offs: 11.20.13
$$$Billionaire Mark Cuban takes on the SEC [WaPo]
$$$How to Pick a Securities Fraud Jury When Everyone Hates Everybody [BusinessWeek / Sheelah Kolhatkar]
$$$ Man Group employees are feeling the squeeze at the struggling hedge fund, with staff at its London headquarters being shunted into just one-and-a-half floors of the nine-storey building it opened to great fanfare in 2011.
One senior executive based at the HQ on the banks of the Thames said: “We are being shoved into a much smaller area, which people aren’t really happy about it. Our fund assets are shrinking and so it seems is our floor space.” [FT]
$$$Man claims Bank of America gave him heart attack, files lawsuit [WSCO]
$$$ George W. Bush appeared on The Tonight Show on Tuesday, ostensibly to promote his new library but also to show off one of his new paintings, which he gave to host Jay Leno. The painting, a portrait of Leno, marks something of an artistic shift for Bush, who has spent the past several months seemingly painting only animals—specifically, cats and dogs. When Leno showed a painting of the former president's recently-deceased dog, Barney, Bush segued into an anecdote about Vladimir Putin's pet snobbery. In short, Putin was not impressed with Barney, a fact he demonstrated during their one meeting with his “body language,” according to Bush; when Bush met Putin's dog—a large hound—a year later, the Russian president boasted that his dog was “bigger, faster, and stronger” than Barney. [Gawker]
$$$Morgan Stanley in talks to sell commodities business [NYP]
$$$Where Does JPMorgan’s $13 Billion Go? [Dealbook]
