{"id":189308,"date":"2010-04-19T16:46:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-19T21:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/04\/19\/no-this-is-not-a-joke\/"},"modified":"2010-04-19T16:46:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-19T21:46:00","slug":"no-this-is-not-a-joke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/04\/19\/no-this-is-not-a-joke\/","title":{"rendered":"No, This is Not a Joke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The lead SEC attorney in the civil fraud case against Goldman Sachs, aka, &#8220;The great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money,&#8221;<sup>*<\/sup> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/article\/judge-appointed-goldman-case-barbara-jones-racketeeringorganized-crime-expert-and-bill-clint\">is one Andrew Matthew <span style=\"font-variant: small-caps; font-weight: bold;\">Calamari<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I actually went and confirmed it with a Google, and Mr. Calamari is actually the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sec.gov\/news\/press\/2004-156.htm\">associate regional director for the SEC&#8217;s New York office<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>No really, click the link, it&#8217;s from the SEC.<\/p>\n<p>As Dave Barry would say, &#8220;I&#8217;m not making this up.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size:78%;\">Alas, I cannot claim credit  for the bon mot describing Goldman Sachs as a vampire squid.  This was coined by the  great Matt Taibbi, in his article on the <\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;font-size:78%;\" >massive criminal  conspiracy<\/span><span style=\"font-size:78%;\"> investment firm, <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/story\/28816321\/the_great_american_bubble_machine\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;font-size:78%;\" >The Great American Bubble  Machine<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size:78%;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The lead SEC attorney in the civil fraud case against Goldman Sachs, aka, &#8220;The great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money,&#8221;* is one Andrew Matthew Calamari. I actually went and confirmed it with a Google, and Mr. Calamari is actually the associate &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[962,970,1004,972,1015],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-40yrs","category-corruption","category-finance","category-justice","category-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189308"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}