Corzine: I didn’t tell my company to use customer dollars, and if I did, I didn’t mean it

Hotair ^ | 12/09/2011 | Ed Morrissey

[ponygirl]

We are so far down the rabbit hole it isn’t even funny. Every day gets more surreal than the previous one.

[ScottinVA]

Corzine: I didn’t tell my company to use customer dollars, and if I did, I didn’t mean it

"And I promise to never do it again... if I did it.. which I might have.. or not."

[bert]

What he said was “ go find some cash somewhere!!”

Dieing companies have no scruples.

[RC2]

All of Corzine’s money should be locked up until this is over with. He still hasn’t answered whether he lost any of his fortune.

[DManA]

As I understand the intent of Sarbanes–Oxley is to bind the CEO, legally and potentially criminally, to the honesty of its bookkeeping. MF Global’s books were fraudulent. Why hasn’t he been charged already?

You run a $100 million dollar company and do the same thing and you’d be in jail so fast you wouldn’t have time to blink.

[Free Vulcan]

To me this is easy - tell the lieutenants to give up the goods on Corzine or they go to jail. Can’t believe they’d be that hard to flip. You know Corzine ordered it.

[AD from SpringBay]

Imagine a six-year-old telling his mommy, “I didn’t tell my friends to take your money, and if I did I didn’t mean it.” WTH is going on with the scandals and this administration? Corzine and Holder are both making the most asinine of excuses that wouldn’t hold up for a half-minute in traffic court. The stakes at their level are way too high to allow this type of illegal activity. The money Corzine was in charge of is gone. That’s called theft. He was in charge. How hard is that to figure out? Does anybody in any position of authority have a spine any more?

[brownsfan]

I didn’t do it... you can’t prove it... nobody saw anything. (But if someone did, I didn’t mean it).

If I were king, he’d go to jail for saying something so stupid.

[SF_Redux]

if he did, he didn’t mean it

I see a group hug in there somewhere

[jagusafr]

“Ididn’tdoitnobodysawmeyoucan’tproveanything!”

- Bart Simpson.

[Don Corleone]

Dieing companies have no scruples.

Nor do dying nations.

[Presbyterian Reporter]

I watched the hearing yesterday and for the most part the Congress members asked Corzine a bunch of softball questions.

I want to know when Corzine and the other executives at MF Global are going to be prosecuted for theft.

Some major prison time for these crooks would do a lot to clean up wall street.

[onedoug]

No.

[massgopguy]

“Randy just layed there like a Slug. It was his only defense.”

[martinidon]

is that sort of like saying I did not steal the money but if I did I didn't mean too. Why hasn't this guy been arrested. Everybody remember Ken Lay and company? The media was crucifying President Bush for the Enron scandal.
This guy steals Billions and the media is treating it like it was just a business that failed because of today's economy.

[Iron Munro]

So which is it?

He didn’t do it or he did do it?
Is this a responsible statement from a man who was a Senator and a state governor before he bilked MF Global investors out of $1.2 billion?

The fact that maggots like him can get voted into such high level government offices provides some insight as to why the country is in such horrible financial condition.

By all accounts, as governor of New Jersey he ran the state pretty much the same way he ran MF Global.

[massgopguy]

The press was guilty of malfeasance in reporting the Enron scandal. 60 Minutes did a segment on the pipeline in India in 1996. When they mentioned the White House connection. They showed file footage of George Bush getting out of a limo under the portico. Then they brought up the baseball field and how George Bush owned the team. WRONG TEAM! The Clinton Administration gave Enron a waiver from the Investment Companies Act of 1940. Allowing it to cook the books. The Bush DOJ prosecuted Enron but he gets blamed for everything that happened under Clinton. BTW, that was the last time I watched 60 Minutes.

[upchuck]

Some major prison time for these crooks would do a lot to clean up wall street.

IMHO, this is a major problem. These crooks just keep on getting away with crimes like this. Over and over and over and over. And NO jail time.

[Maverick68]

We will remind the voters that THIS was Obama’s choice for the new Sec. of Treasury.