{"id":191477,"date":"2009-08-13T19:56:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-14T00:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/08\/13\/something-smells-very-fishy-here\/"},"modified":"2009-08-13T19:56:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-14T00:56:00","slug":"something-smells-very-fishy-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/08\/13\/something-smells-very-fishy-here\/","title":{"rendered":"Something Smells Very Fishy Here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember that guy who allegedly stole Goldman Sach&#8217;s proprietary high speed trading software?  You know, the stuff that ran on their co-located servers in the exchanges, and so as to engage in <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/search?q=goldman+front+running\">front-running the entire market<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>Well, it looks like there is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.securitiesindustry.com\/news\/-23817-1.html\">a no jail time deal for Sergey Aleynikov in the offing about this<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Goldman Sachs has apparently folded like a bunch of overcooked broccoli, after the  defense got a ruling saying that said that they were to be given access to all relevant personnel records.<\/p>\n<p>So, <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Goldman Sachs<\/span>, that great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity,<sup>*<\/sup> the folks who think, probably correctly, that they <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">own<\/span> the United States of America, acted like a prison bitch when confronted with the possibility of his reviewing his own <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">personnel file<\/span>???<\/p>\n<p>Something is <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">very<\/span> wrong here.<\/p>\n<p>What on earth are they hiding?<\/p>\n<p>FWIW, any tips received will be kept in strictest confidence.<\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size: 78%;\">Alas, I cannot claim credit for this bon mot, it was coined by the great Matt Taibbi, in his article on the <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 78%; text-decoration: line-through;\">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-size: 78%; font-style: italic;\">The Great American Bubble Machine<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 78%;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember that guy who allegedly stole Goldman Sach&#8217;s proprietary high speed trading software? You know, the stuff that ran on their co-located servers in the exchanges, and so as to engage in front-running the entire market? Well, it looks like there is a no jail time deal for Sergey Aleynikov in the offing about this. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1060,970,1004,985],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer","category-corruption","category-finance","category-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191477"}],"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=191477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}