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The Top Corporate Crime Cases Of 2024 So Far
by Gunnar Larson 09 Aug '24

09 Aug '24

The Top Corporate Crime Cases Of 2024 So Far <https://www.law360.co.uk/financial-services-uk/articles/1857565?nl_pk=a94fc…> By Christopher Crosby The partial acquittal of two retired British executives on bribery charges as part of a major Serious Fraud Office investigation, the first bribery conviction of a foreign official and Julian Assange's shock plea deal are just a few of the blockbuster cases so far in 2024. Read full article » <https://www.law360.co.uk/financial-services-uk/articles/1857565?nl_pk=a94fc…> | Save to favorites » <https://www.law360.co.uk/financial-services-uk/articles/1857565?nl_pk=a94fc…>

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Retail trader demand for Rumble stock hits record after Trump picks Vance for VP nominee
by Gunnar Larson 08 Aug '24

08 Aug '24

Retail trader demand for Rumble stock hits record after Trump picks Vance for VP nominee PUBLISHED THU, JUL 18 20249:58 AM EDTUPDATED THU, JUL 18 20242:13 PM EDT [image: thumbnail] Jesse Pound <https://www.cnbc.com/jesse-pound/>@/IN/JESSE-POUND <https://linkedin.com//in/jesse-pound>@JESSERPOUND <https://twitter.com/@jesserpound> WATCH LIVE <https://www.cnbc.com/live-tv/> https://www.cnbc.com/2024/07/18/retail-trader-demand-for-rumble-stock-hits-…

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We Charted the Plunge and Rebound in the Nikkei Versus Nomura and Citigroup; the Correlation Is Frightening
by Gunnar Larson 08 Aug '24

08 Aug '24

https://wallstreetonparade.com/2024/08/we-charted-the-plunge-and-rebound-in… By Pam Martens and Russ Martens: August 8, 2024 ~ Remember the Repo Crisis in the fall of 2019 when the Federal Reserve had to jump in with both feet and make billions of dollars in revolving emergency loans each weekday to the megabanks on Wall Street? And remember when Wall Street On Parade was the only media outlet that named the banks that got the money and graphed the largest borrowers when the Fed released the granular loan data two years later? Well, guess what. Two of the financial firms that played a starring role in the repo crisis of 2019 appear to be part of the cast in the current trading debacle in Japan that’s spilling into global markets – if their share price performance is any indicator. The graph above shows that the Japanese financial firm, Nomura, and the giant U.S. megabank, Citigroup, are trading in eerie correlation to the trading debacle in Japan. The graph below shows that Nomura was the largest borrower from the Fed in the 2019 repo crisis, borrowing a stunning $3.7 trillion in term-adjusted revolving loans, while Citigroup ranked fifth. (Citigroup ranked as the number one largest borrower of emergency loans from the Fed during the 2008 financial crisis, taking $2.5 trillion in revolving loans from December 2007 through July 2010, according to the Government Accountability Office.) Fed's Repo Loans to Largest Borrowers, Q4 2019, Adjusted for Term of Loan Much of the blame for the recent stock selloff has been characterized by the media as the unwinding of the “yen carry trade.” (Clearly, geo-political factors are also playing a role.) Providing false comfort to investors, Bloomberg News had a top headline early this morning that declared that “JPMorgan Says Three Quarters of Global Carry Trades Now Unwound.” Unless JPMorgan Chase has an omnipotent crystal ball, it has zero chance of knowing what every global hedge fund is doing, what its megabank competitors are doing, what international asset managers, life insurers, and sovereign wealth funds are doing. Recall the spring of 2021 when the supposedly smartest trading houses on Wall Street didn’t know they were being conned by family office hedge fund Archegos until it blew up in their face, leaving some of the megabanks with billions in losses? (See Archegos: Wall Street Was Effectively Giving 85 Percent Margin Loans on Concentrated Stock Positions – Thwarting the Fed’s Reg T and Its Own Margin Rules.) Or how about the $6.2 billion in losses JPMorgan suffered in the London Whale scandal because it couldn’t keep tabs on what its derivative traders in London were doing? Or what Bernie Madoff was doing in his business account at JPMorgan Chase? Or what Jeffrey Epstein was doing in his multitude of related accounts at JPMorgan Chase as they facilitated an international sex-trafficking operation. The problem with attempting to analyze the unwinding of the yen carry trade and who is getting caught up in a destructive cycle of selling securities to meet margin calls is that there are a vast number of ways that large traders could be losing money and an equally vast arena of related exposures. There could be related currency losses; related derivative losses; related stock portfolio losses and related shaky counterparties. Let’s say, hypothetically, that traders had made wrong-way leveraged bets on the Japanese yen or U.S. Dollar or U.S. tech stocks – or all three. Attempting to unwind that tangled mess is unlikely to be resolved in a week’s time. According to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), as of March 31 of this year, JPMorgan Chase Bank held $966 billion in spot foreign exchange contracts; Goldman Sachs Bank USA held $952 billion; Bank of America held $523 billion; and Citigroup’s Citibank held $442 billion. Those four commercial banks’ holdings of spot Forex accounted for 90 percent of spot Forex at all 4,568 federally-insured commercial banks and savings associations in the United States at the end of the first quarter, according to the most recent OCC report. (See page 17 at this link.) That level of concentration is equally frightening at taxpayer-backstopped financial institutions. Related Article: A Nomura Document May Shed Light on the Repo Blowup and Fed Bailout of the Gang of Six in 2019

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Re: [spam][crazy][fiction][random] Non-Canon MCBoss Spinoffs
by Undescribed Horrific Abuse, One Victim & Survivor of Many 08 Aug '24

08 Aug '24

so now i am trying to port it to c++ to organize it better this is harder, i can't do c++ effectively while confused on an ipad i made the attached c++ code today at a student center that i think or hope is also open to the public. it performs the same code for the inverse involute, calculates optimized points for an involute curve rasterized to 1.0 unit output precision via subdivision, and starts to lay out classes for a gear assembly. it's another stretch for me to use c++ again. excited the rasterization seems to work.

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Quinn, Jenner Attys Tapped For Trump Shooting Inquiry
by Gunnar Larson 08 Aug '24

08 Aug '24

Quinn, Jenner Attys Tapped For Trump Shooting Inquiry <https://www.law360.com/capitalmarkets/articles/1867222?nl_pk=abe82add-2a33-…> By Courtney Bublé The Republican staff on the newly formed bipartisan task force to investigate the assassination attempt of former President Donald Trump includes Capitol Hill and legal veterans, among them attorneys from Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP and Jenner & Block LLP. Read full article » <https://www.law360.com/capitalmarkets/articles/1867222?nl_pk=abe82add-2a33-…> | Save to favorites » <https://www.law360.com/capitalmarkets/articles/1867222?nl_pk=abe82add-2a33-…>

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Lender Says Mogul's Privacy Concerns Stymying Trial Prep
by Gunnar Larson 08 Aug '24

08 Aug '24

Lender Says Mogul's Privacy Concerns Stymying Trial Prep <https://www.law360.com/capitalmarkets/articles/1867253?nl_pk=abe82add-2a33-…> By Danielle Ferguson Attorneys for a lending agent pursuing a $127 million judgment from an auto parts mogul asked a Michigan federal judge Tuesday to deny the mogul and his bankrupt company's attempts to keep key documents private, saying the inability to share relevant information with their clients is hindering their ability to prepare for trial. 2 documents attached | Read full article » <https://www.law360.com/capitalmarkets/articles/1867253?nl_pk=abe82add-2a33-…> | Save to favorites » <https://www.law360.com/capitalmarkets/articles/1867253?nl_pk=abe82add-2a33-…>

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DOD Contractor Wants No Prison For Parts Sales From Turkey
by Gunnar Larson 08 Aug '24

08 Aug '24

DOD Contractor Wants No Prison For Parts Sales From Turkey <https://www.law360.com/governmentcontracts/articles/1867427?nl_pk=4126fe73-…> By Carolina Bolado A Florida defense contractor who admitted to using a front company to supply critical military components that were made in Turkey asked Tuesday for a non-prison sentence, arguing that her participation in the scheme to defraud the U.S. Department of Defense was driven by financial desperation and a misplaced trust in those who ran the operation. Memorandum attached | Read full article » <https://www.law360.com/governmentcontracts/articles/1867427?nl_pk=4126fe73-…> | Save to favorites » <https://www.law360.com/governmentcontracts/articles/1867427?nl_pk=4126fe73-…>

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Apple Loses Fight To Keep Bid For Patent Suit Docs In Del.
by Gunnar Larson 08 Aug '24

08 Aug '24

Apple Loses Fight To Keep Bid For Patent Suit Docs In Del. <https://www.law360.com/technology/articles/1867082?nl_pk=2bd720dd-746c-4744…> By Rose Krebs Delaware's chief district judge has transferred Apple's bid to force litigation funding company Omni Bridgeway LLC to turn over documents explaining its financial interest in patent litigation against Apple in California to that state, saying he couldn't "think of a good reason" why he should decide the matter. Decision attached | Read full article » <https://www.law360.com/technology/articles/1867082?nl_pk=2bd720dd-746c-4744…> | Save to favorites » <https://www.law360.com/technology/articles/1867082?nl_pk=2bd720dd-746c-4744…>

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6th Circ. Backs 20 Years For Chinese Spy Who Targeted GE
by Gunnar Larson 08 Aug '24

08 Aug '24

6th Circ. Backs 20 Years For Chinese Spy Who Targeted GE <https://www.law360.com/compliance/articles/1867545?nl_pk=ab5ce197-c1fb-4d8e…> By Gina Kim The Sixth Circuit upheld a 20-year prison sentence for a Chinese spy convicted of espionage for trying to steal trade secrets from General Electric's GE Aviation unit, noting in an opinion unsealed Wednesday the punishment was reasonable as he continuously pursued the confidential information using sophisticated tradecraft processes for several years. Opinion attached | Read full article » <https://www.law360.com/compliance/articles/1867545?nl_pk=ab5ce197-c1fb-4d8e…> | Save to favorites » <https://www.law360.com/compliance/articles/1867545?nl_pk=ab5ce197-c1fb-4d8e…>

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TD Bank Shared Customer Data With Meta, Suit Claims
by Gunnar Larson 08 Aug '24

08 Aug '24

TD Bank Shared Customer Data With Meta, Suit Claims <https://www.law360.com/banking/articles/1867339?nl_pk=feb6bbba-7878-4d39-be…> By Sydney Price A new proposed class action in New Jersey federal court alleges TD Bank wrongfully shared customers' personal information with Meta Platforms Inc. without consent for marketing purposes. Complaint attached | Read full article » <https://www.law360.com/banking/articles/1867339?nl_pk=feb6bbba-7878-4d39-be…> | Save to favorites » <https://www.law360.com/banking/articles/1867339?nl_pk=feb6bbba-7878-4d39-be…>

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