Guest post by Azizonomics. Priorities are a bitch.

The United States won’t prosecute Corzine for raiding segregated customer accounts,but will happily convene a Grand Jury in preparation for prosecuting Julian Assange forexposing the truth about war crimes.

From the New York Times:

A criminal investigation into the collapse of the brokerage firm MF Global and the disappearance of about $1 billion in customer money is now heading into its final stage without charges expected against any top executives. After 10 months of stitching together evidence on the firm’s demise, criminal investigators are concluding that chaos and porous risk controls at the firm, rather than fraud, allowed the money to disappear, according to people involved in the case.

Corzine is considering opening a new hedge fund, though the notion that anyone —even a slack-jawed muppet happy to buy whatever Goldman ‘s prop traders want to sell— would seed Corzine money so he can trade or steal it away seems absurd.

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