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...court in mid-March, was used to shuttle money back and forth between his U.S. and London operations, to make it appear he was executing trades in European markets, as he told federal regulators. Madoff made no trades at all with his Chase account, but rather just collected investor monies, wrote checks to investors, and took money for himself. In court, Madoff pleaded guilty to 11 counts of fraud, from wire transfer to money-laundering...
Robert Chew is a former investor with Madoff via a feeder fund. He lives in Colorado...
...FDIC) and about which Geithner provided the most detail on Monday. It covers not the complex bundled loans that have received much attention in the media but troubled loans, like mortgages that haven't been paid for three months or more. The plan offers very favorable financing for private investors who want to buy them. In an example provided by the Treasury, an investor would pay as little as $6 for a loan that had an original value...
...financing for this part of the plan is much less attractive. For every dollar of equity an investor puts up, the government will put up a dollar of its own, plus up to another two dollars in financing, for a total of 3-1 leverage...
Those are more attractive terms than the TALF or investment funds offer, and the buzz that it immediately generated helped give the whole package a good investor-friendly feel. But the TALF plan helps in its own way. Though just getting started, it seems to have a chance at success, and thus gives the impression that the collaboration between the government and investors might work. Next to those two pillars, the once shaky "public-private investment fund" idea now seems sturdier and more likely to succeed...