FBI Forced To Divert Antiterrorism Agents To Help Untangle $50 Billion Madoff Swindle

Bloomberg:

The FBI has engaged in "triage," taking agents off terror and other crimes to respond to a cascade of financial frauds such as the alleged Bernard Madoff Ponzi scheme, the head of the bureau's New York criminal division said.

Read the whole story: Bloomberg

Comments

[KOisGod]

Wait, bush's justice dept is going after his and paulson's buddies?

aha

aha ha hahahahahahahha HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHA

ha

[Carolab]

Sort of like expecting them to do something about the Connell case.

[myangeldog1]

holycr@p Carol.....I KNEW who it was before I even read the article. Had been following the Arn eb eck case this summer.......OMG....they got him.

[JenJenl]

Just saw Rahm Emanuel. He looks like skeletor!

[JamesR.]

Chertoff is skelator.

[init]

Yes. Read the European Union Press. Where is Blair? Blair rolls over. Our press is 10 years behind.

[HappyIdiot2008]

You certainly know how to change a story. Don't get distracted.

[g35]

It is one of many great ironies of the Obama presidency that he is demanding massive troop reinforcements to be sent to Afghanistan to fig ht the Taliban terro rists who were initially ar med, trained and organised by Brzezinski, the man behind Obama. As Morpheus says in The Matrix: 'Fate, it seems, is not without its sense of irony'.

[SouthFloridaDem]

That's nice. I hope they're planning to investigate Paulson and the Wall Street boys for their gargantuan fraud against the US taxpayer.

[myangeldog1]

Aren't the Republicans supposed to be all about "less government"? They've taken literally everything this country has and more, and now WE who have given are at risk because we have to pull MORE resources to figure out another one of their countless messes? I seriously cannot handle this issue any more and cannot believe thay have done this to us.

[Questinia]

It makes me go berserk too. I'd be a total cynic by now if it weren't for the possibility for change. : )

[Misha-in-Texas]

The republicans are nothing but hypocrites who worship the almighty dollar.

[liseworks]

Agree - it's all gotten to be so heavy, distressing - ......I feel the weight Obama must have on his shoulders -

[myangeldog1]

I can't begin to imagine burden he is under.

[JamesR.]

I read this twice because I didn't believe it the first time I read it.

http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/081222/financial_meltdown.html

Notice anything missing?

[Carolab]

I think Barney is doing what he has been doing all along--working with Sheila Bair in trying to ensure that the second tranche is used to help prevent foreclosures.

[JamesR.]

Without an accounting of the first 350bn? The banks got the money, what did they DO with it?

[Misha-in-Texas]

I just don't want that money touched until Obama is in office.

[bayviking]

How many have noticed

Osama is winning on a dime, while BushCo robs everyone blind.

Partners in crime or just divine?

[leftLibertarian]

Call 'em economic terrorists. Madoff belongs in Gitmo, not his fancy pants super deluxe Part Ave Condo with the private entrance for his harem.

[KOisGod]

I want to see these b.a.s.dard.s

BURN

[HappyIdiot2008]

I guess I would like for them to learn what they did wrong.

[Misha-in-Texas]

Happy, you are genuinely nice.

Good for you!

[SCG]

This is like calling the Fire Dept. after the house has burned to the ground.

[SaviourMachine]

Spot on.

[Bitsko]

And then the Fire Dept. loots the site.

[SurferKit]

Yep. Republicans were supposed to be the party of law and order and tough on National Security. I guess they didn't really mean it.

[Oxonian2001]

They're only the party of law and order when the minorities and/or underclasses are concerned.

[liseworks]

What I particularly feel optimistic about is that it's setting a precedent - seems we're on an anti-corrruption" roll - finally !

[gmlaster]

True, but it's a bit like shutting the barn door after all the horses have gone. The damage is done, and done good.

[g35]

how can that be true when obama voted for the bailout?

[SCG]

Let's hope so. We need it badly.

[liseworks]

Posted this under the wrong comment -

[Klimb]

Well put...

[g35]

CAROLAB
read this tell me what you think.......

http://www.davidicke.com/content/view/18281

[Episcopagan]

Slouching towards Gomorrah

"...His manhood on display..."

[JamesR.]

Icke believes there are lizzard people living under the earths crust. The bluebloods. Do you find that sane?

[g35]

no he doesnt

what i do find insane is any president that can ki ll 1 million iraqis and sleep at night ...dont you..

or a country that hasnt thrown him out yet?

[shockmagog]

Wow, man, what a diatribe! Witness this passage:

'But Obama clearly can, because he has.'

'One of 'his' (his controllers') prime targets are the young, just as they were with the N.a.z.is and the Hi.tl.er Youth Movement. If you think this parallel is far-fetched then have a look at this video to see how extreme Obama worship has already become for some young people. Hi.tl.er Youth was just the same.'

(sorry for butting in)

[ErnestineBass]

Just to play the devil's advocate here...how many hits did the previous headline site of a shirtless O! get earlier...over 4,000?

[Episcopagan]

David Vaughan Icke (pronounced /ˈaɪk/, born 29 April 1952) is a British writer and public speaker who has devoted himself since 1990 to researching "who and what is really controlling the world."[1] A former professional football player, reporter, television sports presenter, and spokesman for the Green Party, he is the author of 20 books explaining his views.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Icke

~snicker~

[Carolab]

If you think that's something, read what LaRouche says.

[Episcopagan]

Lyndon LaRouche?

Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahahahahahahahahahahaha.

[Linda31]

And this is why Bush cannot honestly claim that he has keep this country safe. We are being attacked by other means. It's sad and scary.

[init]

If you could take your butts over to the European press; you would know what our Bailout is all about. Markel and blackmail.

[Misha-in-Texas]

Did you guys just see the story (above the story here) on Chrysler? They spent a 100K for an ad in the WSJ to thank the American people.

These guys just do not get it do they?

[Bitsko]

The greatest insult is that that the majority owner of Chrysler is the private equity firm Cerberus Capital Management, L.P., which has assets of around $24 billion.

[ErnestineBass]

$27 Billion+ actually...but, hey, a few billion one way or the other isn't shite in today's economy, is it?

[JenJenl]

The advertise.that's how they think they will increase profits. GM Planworks, their ad agency, just got over $3 million