Memo Reveals: Corzine Did Steal Investor Funds and Perjured Himself Before Congress

[Funny how the "Occupy" crowd isn't screaming about this asshole.  madoff is in jail and Corzine walking free.  Fuck this guy. ~~Assoc. Ed Ralph]

Everywhere you look in the Obama regime there’s a scandal.  This time it involves fraud, embezzlement, breach of fiduciary duty, perjury to Congress, and theft…of over a billion dollars.  Now, we can identify at least $200 Million of it was transferred from a customer’s fund account to cover an overdraft in a brokerage account with JPMorgan Chase.  Corzine made the fatal mistake of all Liberals by thinking that money will just come from the heavens to cover the high risk, junk Greek bonds he invested in.
Via Lucianne, according to Bloomberg,

Jon S. Corzine, MF Global Holding Ltd. (MFGLQ)’s chief executive officer, gave “direct instructions” to transfer $200 million from a customer fund account to meet an overdraft in a brokerage account with JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM), according to a memo written by congressional investigators.
Edith O’Brien, a treasurer for the firm, said in an e-mail quoted in the memo that the transfer was “Per JC’s direct instructions,” according to a copy of the memo obtained by Bloomberg News. The e-mail, dated Oct. 28, was sent three days before the company collapsed, the memo says. The memo does not indicate whether that phrase was the full text of the e-mail or an excerpt.
O’Brien’s internal e-mail was sent as the New York-based broker found intraday credit lines limited by JPMorgan, the firm’s clearing bank as well as one of its custodian banks for segregated customer funds, according to the memo, which was prepared for a March 28 House Financial Services subcommittee hearing on the firm’s collapse. O’Brien is scheduled to testify at the hearing after being subpoenaed this week.
“Over the course of that week, MF Global (MFGLQ)’s financial position deteriorated, but the firm represented to its regulators and self-regulatory organizations that its customers’ segregated funds were safe,” said the memo, written by Financial Services Committee staff and sent to lawmakers.
Steven Goldberg, a spokesman for Corzine, said in a statement that Corzine “never gave any instruction to misuse customer funds and never intended anyone at MF Global to misuse customer funds.”
JPMorgan Overdraft
Vinay Mahajan, global treasurer of MF Global Holdings, wrote an e-mail on Oct. 28 that said JPMorgan was “holding up vital business in the U.S. as a result” of the overdrawn account, which had to be “fully funded ASAP,” according to the memo.
Barry Zubrow, JPMorgan’s chief risk officer, called Corzine to seek assurances that the funds belonged to MF Global and not customers. JPMorgan drafted a letter to be signed by O’Brien to ensure that MF Global was complying with rules requiring customers’ collateral to be segregated. The letter was not returned to JPMorgan, the memo said.
The money transferred came from a segregated customer account, according to congressional investigators. Segregated accounts can include customer money and excess company funds.
Corzine Testimony
Corzine, 65, in testimony in front of the House panel in December, said he did not order any improper transfer of customer funds. Corzine also testified that he never intended a misuse of customer funds at MF Global, and that he doesn’t know where client funds went.

Don’t forget, this is the man Joe Biden called for advice about the economy.

And they wonder why the economy failed, the stimulus failed, and we have an additional $5 Trillion in debt in 3 1/2 years.