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Jon Corzine On MF Global Collapse: 'I Simply Do Not Know Where The Money Is'

Former New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine is set to tell a House committee he has no idea what happened to customer money that went missing when his brokerage firm, MF Global, went bankrupt in October. In testimony prepared for his appearance before the House Agriculture Committee later today, Mr. Corzine said, “I simply do not know where the money is, or why the accounts have not been reconciled to date.” Read More

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Roundup: Shelly Silver Started The Fire

Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver said Occupy Wall Street is following his lead on the “Millionaire’s Tax.”

The FBI was watching former Queens Congresswoman and Republican Democratic Vice Presidential nominee Geraldine Ferraro.

Democratic State Senator Adriano Espaillat organized a march in Washington Heights in solidarity with Occupy Wall Street.

MF Global, a hedge fund brokerage headed by former New Jersey Governor and Senator Jon Corzine, filed for bankruptcy Monday. The New York Times is calling the firm’s collapse “the first American financial casualty of the European debt crisis.” Read More