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HomeJPMadoff: New Site Hits JPMorgan Hard in re: Madoff
Posted by Larry Doyle on August 12th, 2014 11:46 AM |
In early January of this year, JP Morgan was hit with a $2 billion fine and a deferred prosecution agreement for its failures to properly manage and monitor its 20-plus year relationship with the Sultan of Swindle Bernie Madoff.
In my opinion, that settlement had little meaningful correlation with what most in our nation would define as justice. I wrote as much in my commentary, JP Morgan – Madoff: Lots of ‘CYA’ But Little ‘KYC’.
After this settlement was finalized, I can only assume that many of the folks at FINRA, the SEC, DOJ, SIPC (Securities Investor Protection Corporation), and certainly JP Morgan exhaled a welcome sigh of relief to see the JPM-Madoff affair fading into the rear view mirror.
Not so fast!! (more…)
Buy Used Car from Barclays, BNP Paribas, GM, et al?
Posted by Larry Doyle on July 1st, 2014 8:08 AM |
In light of recent developments I am compelled to wonder why anybody might care to deal with the following organizations:
1. Barclays: New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman lays out detailed allegations showing the bank to have engaged in a ‘pernicious fraud’ and lied to customers regarding the operation of its equity dark pool. In the process, Barclays allowed high frequency trading firms to act in a predatory fashion against other clients.
2. BNP Paribas: as Reuters details:
The bank essentially functioned as the “central bank for the government of Sudan” (LD’s edit: Sudan has long been regarded as a state sponsor of terrorism), concealed its tracks and failed to cooperate when first contacted by law enforcement, U.S. authorities said.
JP Morgan – Madoff : Lots of ‘CYA’ But Little ‘KYC’
Posted by Larry Doyle on January 8th, 2014 7:46 AM |
Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive.
All too often we have heard senior level individuals from an array of financial institutions and regulatory agencies say that they too were deceived by the master swindler Bernie Madoff.
That sort of lame excuse might work for a naive young teenager duped by an online scam artist trying to make a quick buck. It certainly does not and should not hold any water for senior level bankers running an institution like JP Morgan. Why is that? (more…)
JP Morgan To Settle Madoff Claim: Wall Street ‘Code of Silence’
Posted by Larry Doyle on December 12th, 2013 10:20 AM |
News breaks this morning that JP Morgan, Bernie Madoff’s lead banker, is close to settling with the Feds under a seldom used deferred prosecution agreement.
What is that?
Think of it as the equivalent of: You guys and gals had better behave yourselves going forward or we’re going to need to revisit this! Truth be told, a deferred prosecution agreement is tougher than the standard “neither admit nor deny” treatment accorded Wall Street banks. How so? It “lists the bank’s criminal violations in a court filing but stops short of an indictment as long as JP Morgan pays the penalties and acknowledges the facts of the government’s case.” Let’s revisit the Madoff trustee’s lawsuit brought against Morgan from early 2011. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
JPM – Madoff: A Fine Would Simply Be ‘Cost of Biz’
Posted by Larry Doyle on October 24th, 2013 6:24 AM |
Unlike the token fines — akin to mere parking violations — that the American public has seen imposed on Wall Street to date, the DOJ now seems to want to regain some degree of credibility by writing up the major Wall Street banks for some speeding tickets.
The widely publicized but yet consummated $13 billion fine expected to be paid by JP Morgan is proposed as a template for similar fines likely of a smaller magnitude to be paid by other banks.
An outlier in this imposition of fines as being little more than a cost of doing business occurred yesterday when a jury returned a guilty verdict in a civil case brought against Countrywide (now a division of Bank of America) for fraud in the sale of mortgages to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. This case is an exception rather than the rule but recall that it is a civil disposition and not a criminal proceeding.
Returning now to our regularly scheduled broadcast, we awake this morning and see that JPM is back in the news with the Feds talking about imposing a penalty on Jamie’s bank for its involvement with the Madoff scam. (more…)
