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Well, I just have a sense that Obama and the 'Rats will be working behind the scenes on behalf of Corzine. If they can't protect him entirely then I think they'll soften the fall. I can easily see a scenario where he skips to the Bahamas or Switzerland and very little effort is made to extradite him. That gives Obama and the 'Rats some cover ("What can we do? We don't have jurisdiction...").

But maybe in a sense you're right, these are different times and a different bunch of 'Rats. Still as corrupt, but maybe a different style of corruptness. The Clintons just threw people away and trashed them (or worse). Look at what they did to Billy Dale simply for sitting in a chair that Hillary wanted "her people" to be in. Obama may not be as blatant, but I think he's at least as ruthless, maybe more so, since his is the Chicago Way.

Corzine's "problem" is that there is NO cover up..everything's clearly out there..Corzine wasn't thinking...he faced massive margin calls, or his positions are closed out, and the firm goes belly up..he was convinced..after all he is so smart...Biden says so..that he borrowed the $$ for a few days..the markets turn around they put it back..all's good.

Here's the key, as I've said before...Corzine can't switch out all the $$ himself..he needed several key senior backoffice staff to do it...they knew it was illegal..but they believed Corzine, and also they wanted to save the firm, AND their jobs...now they are all cutting deals with Feds..in a trial, this is easy for the jury to follow..

Corzine might try to cut a deal...give up some other WS biggies who are dirty...for a lesser sentence...but he's gonna do HARD time..and a lot of it..