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It’s All About the Fraud: The Silence of the Buy Side

It’s All About the Fraud: The Silence of the Buy Side

Many interesting points here…

Chris Whalen guest post on ZeroHedge-

Over the weekend, I met with John Titus, Executive Producer of the new documentary film “Bailout: The Dukes of Moral Hazard,” which tells the story of individual Americans affected by the financial bust.  Myself, Yves Smith and other members of the blogerati are featured in the film.

We talked about why the film seems to connect with people at a viseral level.  Our conclusion is that the clarity and hilarity comes from the choice of our late friend John Fox as narrator.

http://thecomicscomic.com/2012/05/31/r-i-p-john-fox-1957-2012/

The next screening of “Bailout” will be in Philadelphia later this month:

http://usabailout.com/content/screening-philadelphia-june-20-and-june-23

The subject matter of “Bailout” had to pass through the keen, irreverant perspective that John Fox, a veteran television writer and later stand up commedian, brought to all of his work.  When the man who opened for Rodney Dangerfield for eight years tells you about the subprime crisis, it somehow makes sense.

But even though Bailout Director Sean Patrick Fahey vividly presents the impact of the crisis on home owners, there is another part of the story that remains untold, namely the hundreds of billions of dollars in losses borne by investors.  Incredibly, the vast majority of the losses on residential mortgage backed securities (RMBS) and toxic derivatives like collateralized debt obligations (CDO) have been left on the table.

Consumer and legal advocates, and politicians, focus most of their attention on the impact of the crisis on home owners and communities.  No surprise since this is where the heat is politically.  Likewise for the media, back to the point about John Fox in the role of interlocutor, the most easily understood and conveyed part of the crisis is found in the world of consumer real estate and foreclosures.  Talking about the role of a trustee in an RMBS trust quickly causes the eyes to glaze, but that same complexity and unattractiveness creates vast opportunities for fraud.

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But the trouble is that Scheiderman has done nothing.  It seems that the entire system of government in the US has been compromised by the TBTF banks.  From the Federal Reserve Board in Washington to the office of the US Attorney to the various state AGs to the world of Buy Side managers, nobody has any interest in asking difficult questions about the provenance of the collateral underlying a significant — as in double digit percentages of some RMBS and CDOs.

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If we take Schneiderman’s statement that nothing is “off the table” in terms of prosecuting acts of fraud, an ideal outcome here, IMHO, would be the following:

1)  NY AG Schneiderman goes into federal court next week and files a motion removing BK as custodian with respect to all RMBS trusts governed by NY law.  Schneiderman should ask the court to appoint a receiver with respect to all of the trusts where BK was custodian and immediately investigate whether fraud and professional malfeasance occurred.

2)  Schneiderman asks the court to appoint a receiver with respect to BAC because of ongoing acts of fraud and the recalcitrance shown to the court. Several federal courts have already found BAC to be engaging in “deliberate delay,” discovery abuse and other acts of bad faith in the various lawsuits now underway.  These acts of contempt of court alone are sufficient reason to apppoint a receiver with respect to BAC.

3)  And come to think of it, while Schneiderman is in the court house, he can file an emergency motion to intervene in the MF Global bankruptcy and ask the court to appoint James W. Giddens as receiver in that matter.  Schneiderman has standing to bring this motion and could ask the IL AG and US attorney to join him in making the representations to the court.  Then we wipe that grin off Jon Corzine’s face and start to make some real progress on MF Global.  More tomorrow.

[ZERO HEDGE]

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