Epstein Secrets

nt made the giant hedge fund to resolve the governments multiyear investigation relating to improper trading at the fund, which George S. Canellos, the Securities and Exchange Commission's acting enforcement director called, "historic." What an f....ing joke Yes, the sum exceeds the amounts of older enforcement actions, including a

the press by an administration already girded for combat. How depressing to look back on those days and see not just the obvious -- Douglas Feith, Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney, Condoleezza Rice; those who promised America would be "greeted as liberators" (Cheney), and who threatened nuclear "mushroom clouds" (

onald Rumsfeld and his deputy Paul Wolfowitz suggested the war could be done on the cheap and that it would largely pay for itself. In October 2003, Rumsfeld told a press conference about President Bush's request for $21 billion for Iraq and Afghan reconstruction that "the $20 billion the president reque

the company did a 5% across the board employment cut. While American laws do not require the level of control imposed by some European nations, the Securities and Exchange Commission has been too slow in carrying out the shareholder protections that are on the books. In the United States, shareholder votes on executive pay are no

, Bush belatedly moved to rein in his vice president, siding with Justice Department lawyers on surveillance issues; firing Cheney's dearest friend, Donald Rumsfeld, from his Pentagon job; letting Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice win the argument over whether to bomb a Syrian nuclear reactor site (we didn't)

ened. After Iraq, there has been a weird amnesty and amnesia about people's misjudgment on the most consequential decision of our times.... Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Bremer, Rice, McCain, Abrams, and others including the pro-war press claque are still offering their judgments unfazed. One of my fathe

in the SEC filing as a "beneficial owner" of the Bear Stearns High-Grade Structured Credit Strategies Enhanced Leverage fund. A January filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission describes Epstein's firm as having "the power to vote or dispose of 10% or more of the equity of the hedge fund, which raised $642 million from inve

recently for writing a book in defence of Donald Rumsfeld in which she argued passionately for the former d

the New York Review of Books' founder Robert Silvers and Midge Decter - an ultra-conservative writer known recently for writing a book in defence of Donald Rumsfeld in which she argued passionately for the former defence secretary's "manliness". http://www.smh.com.au/news/business/surprise-party-cost-no-mere-tru