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![(via $200 Million in Vanished Cash Turns Up at JP Morgan — Daily Intel)
For the past month, investigators have been looking up and down Wall Street for over $200 million in customer money, lost in the collapse of MF Global, the brokerage firm that used to rule the commodities business. (MF Global also used to be run by Jon Corzine, former New Jersey governor.) Well, the authorities had to cross the Atlantic, but they found the money. All the millions were sitting in the British branch of JPMorgan Chase.
How did they get there? The Times reports that in the days preceding MF Global’s tumultuous collapse, they overdrew an account with JPMorgan, and may have patched up that debt with consumer funds. Since that would be illegal and immoral, it’s possible that the firm hid its tracks. The results of the investigation are still pending, and may now have to include JPMorgan itself. If the bank didn’t “question the source of the cash,” it too would be at fault.
MF Global filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on October 31st, and in the hearings that followed, it emerged that around $600 million in customer cash had up and vanished. And now, even though $200 million of it has turned up, it’s not clear if customers can get it back. In the meantime, former CEO Corzine has been called in for congressional questioning.
Money Found In Britain May Belong to MF Global [NYT]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lvepkfutdg1qz5q5oo1_250.jpg)
(via $200 Million in Vanished Cash Turns Up at JP Morgan — Daily Intel)
For the past month, investigators have been looking up and down Wall Street for over $200 million in customer money, lost in the collapse of MF Global, the brokerage firm that used to rule the commodities business. (MF Global also used to be run by Jon Corzine, former New Jersey governor.) Well, the authorities had to cross the Atlantic, but they found the money. All the millions were sitting in the British branch of JPMorgan Chase.
How did they get there? The Times reports that in the days preceding MF Global’s tumultuous collapse, they overdrew an account with JPMorgan, and may have patched up that debt with consumer funds. Since that would be illegal and immoral, it’s possible that the firm hid its tracks. The results of the investigation are still pending, and may now have to include JPMorgan itself. If the bank didn’t “question the source of the cash,” it too would be at fault.
MF Global filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on October 31st, and in the hearings that followed, it emerged that around $600 million in customer cash had up and vanished. And now, even though $200 million of it has turned up, it’s not clear if customers can get it back. In the meantime, former CEO Corzine has been called in for congressional questioning.
