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    Image of PaisleyPajamas PaisleyPajamas
    12/03/09

    In reply to We Don't Want to Hear About Anything Under $50 Billion
    Thomas Petters, 53, was convicted on charges of wire fraud, mail fraud and money laundering and faces over 100 years in prison, as well as massive fines.

    We don't have "Ponzi laws" because why, again?
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    Image of Smitros Smitros
    12/03/09

    In reply to We Don't Want to Hear About Anything Under $50 Billion
    All for a little money . . .
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    Image of Z und Vielpunkt's chick Z und Vielpunkt's chick
    12/03/09

    In reply to We Don't Want to Hear About Anything Under $50 Billion
    Here in Minnesota, we call him Tom Petters.
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    Image of Hockeymom Hockeymom
    12/03/09

    @Z und Vielpunkt's chick: Is he the one whose wife locked him out of the mansion after the indictment...and as he's banging on the door to get in, he looks up and sees the wife and kids all giving him the finger?

    Or was that the car-guy Denny Hecker? I get all these jail-bound Minnesotans mixed up.
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    Image of Z und Vielpunkt's chick Z und Vielpunkt's chick
    12/03/09

    @Hockeymom: I hadn't heard that. Must be Hecker, who's going through a nasty divorce.
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    Image of TheUptightMidwesterner TheUptightMidwesterner
    12/03/09

    @Z und Vielpunkt's chick: You can tell Petters and Hecker apart because Hecker glows in the dark from all his tanning oil and white 900 dollar loafers.
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    Image of BlinkyMcChuck BlinkyMcChuck
    11/15/09

    In reply to Inside the Bernie Madoff Tchotchke Auction
    I'm just wondering meanwhile if Ruth wore the Benz necklace or if Bernie did. #berniemadoff
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    Image of destor23 destor23
    11/15/09

    In reply to Inside the Bernie Madoff Tchotchke Auction
    Look in the pocket of the jacket and there's an account number for a bank in Turks and Caicos. There you'll find the real Madoff stuff... #berniemadoff
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    Image of lostarchitect lostarchitect
    11/15/09

    In reply to Inside the Bernie Madoff Tchotchke Auction
    I'm pretty sure you can get a team jacket with any name you want on it for a couple hundred bucks. I'm gonna get one that says "DAHMER". #berniemadoff
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    Image of MrInBetween MrInBetween
    11/14/09

    In reply to Inside the Bernie Madoff Tchotchke Auction
    Some ass-clown paid $14,500 for a Mets jacket emblazoned with the name Madoff? Good going, pal. You're going to get your ass kicked, for two worthy reasons. #berniemadoff
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    Image of Phyllis Nefler Phyllis Nefler
    11/14/09

    In reply to Inside the Bernie Madoff Tchotchke Auction
    I'm sad for Mario Ramirez :( #berniemadoff
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    Image of DaveDavies DaveDavies
    11/14/09

    @Phyllis Nefler: Why, because he didn't win the auction for the jacket? #berniemadoff
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    Image of goetz goetz
    11/15/09

    @DaveDavies: No, because he's a Mets fan. #berniemadoff
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    Image of Conchie Birdie Conchie Birdie
    07/27/09

    In reply to Eliot Spitzer Still 'Steamrolling' With Way Less To Lose
    Spitzer was fucked up long before this whole "conspiracy" went down. Pun intended - although this comment was not just intended for the pun.
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    Image of snugbug snugbug
    07/27/09

    In reply to Eliot Spitzer Still 'Steamrolling' With Way Less To Lose

    Sadly, the Spitzer saga concluded for me in March '08. No matter how shameless he acts now + forever, and how hard media types work at wordsmithing slap-downs, this game already has a winner. I'm still majorly jealous of these clever bastards.
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    07/27/09


    @snugbug: Sorry, I meant--
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    Image of Uncle_Billy_Slumming Uncle_Billy_Slumming
    07/27/09

    In reply to Eliot Spitzer Still 'Steamrolling' With Way Less To Lose
    There once was a guy named Langone
    Who chuckled and picked up the phone.
    He sent out a dick
    With a memory stick
    And now our poor bulldog's alone.
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    Image of ChillbearLatrigue ChillbearLatrigue
    07/26/09

    In reply to Eliot Spitzer Still 'Steamrolling' With Way Less To Lose
    I would love to know if this blogger has anything to back up his assertion that Eliot's Spitzer's demise was engineered as subterfuge. I would think that prosecutorial discretion would be more apt if Spitzer's whoring was somehow linked to the investigation of the banks. I'm just not following the connection, since he was no longer the Attorney General when the story of his romantic liaisons broke.
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    Image of Pope John Peeps II Pope John Peeps II
    07/27/09

    @ChillbearLatrigue: Oh sure. The previous Republican administration was certainly known for their impartiality, and their lack of spite. And certainly they very much respected powerful Democratic figures who rose through political ranks and were a constant and unrelenting thorn in the side of many major republican contributors.

    SURELY there's no link to Spitzer's conspicuously public and media-laden trial. ABSOLUTELY. I mean, this is politics. It's a game for gentlemen and intellects, where ideas are debated and I can't even finish this sarcastically so end.
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    Image of DavidWatts DavidWatts
    07/27/09

    @ChillbearLatrigue: and I mean, all those AGs who quit or were fired for refusing to make partisan prosecutions, i mean, surely that doesn't mean there were other cases where different AGs were happy to do political prosecutions, and thus kept their jobs, and it never came out in the media. . . right?
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    Image of Claire Buoyant Claire Buoyant
    07/26/09

    In reply to Eliot Spitzer Still 'Steamrolling' With Way Less To Lose
    Speaking of bad shit from the Bush/Cheney administration, how come you guys haven't covered this yet (or did I miss it)? Cheney wanted to use the military on American soil, to round up some people he didn't like in Buffalo. Fuck the Posse Comitatus Act!

    Ultimately, Bush did decide against it, which makes me think...this story along with Scooter Libby's non-pardon almost makes it seem like Bush's rehabilitation has begun, but Cheney? Still as much as an evil bastard as ever.
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    Image of thatgirlinnewyork thatgirlinnewyork
    07/26/09

    In reply to Eliot Spitzer Still 'Steamrolling' With Way Less To Lose
    he always knew where the bodies were hidden, vis a vis the banks. that ish wouldn't have went down in albany with spitzer on the job, either. c'mon back to the five and dime, sir!
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    Image of pilf pilf
    07/26/09

    In reply to Eliot Spitzer Still 'Steamrolling' With Way Less To Lose
    Can we give Spitzer his Sheriff badge back?
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    Image of freedc freedc
    07/27/09

    @pilf: No, because he's a hypocritical asshole that thinks he's better than the people he's busted for the same stupid shit or stupider. Fuck him. I wish him well or whatever, but no, he doesn't get to tell people what to do ever again.
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