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Message from discussion Bear Sterns Deal needs to be investigated immediately.

nhar...@gmail.com

More options Mar 17 2008, 8:29 am

From: nhar...@gmail.com

Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 05:29:26 -0700 (PDT)

Local: Mon, Mar 17 2008 8:29 am

Subject: Re: Bear Sterns Deal needs to be investigated immediately.

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I agree with all your others...but your #6 is key in my mind. I
posted on it last night and am still baffled. BSC shareholders own,
if nothing else, $1B worth of prime real estate. JP comes in like the
Knight in Shining Armour and hands over $30B of TAXPAYER money to BSC,
who promptly rolls over and screws BSC shareholders by selling
everything to BSC for pennies on the dollar. JP walks away with
little to no real risk and Dimon gets a brand new office at fire-sale
prices...what a scam! I'm not a BSC shareholder, but I pay a
truckload of taxes every year and I think this stinks.

bmugf...@gmail.com wrote:
> Timeline -

> Wednesday - On a CNBC Interview, Bear Sterns CEO Alan Schwartz says he
> is not aware of any imminent threat to the banks liquidity, and is not
> sure where the rumor started.

> Wednesday Night - Supposedly this is when Chase and the Fed were
> approached about Bear Sterns liquidity issues.

> Thursday - Stock opens down from about $61 to $58.

> Friday - Stock tanks from $57 to $30

> Weekend - Deal with Chase is made public purchasing Bear Stearns at $2/
> share. It looks like this was organized by Henry Paulson (Secretary
> of the Treasury - former CEO of Goldman Sachs). Shares tank further
> from $30 to $2.

> Several things need to be investigated here -

> 1.) The comment by Alan Schwartz on CNBC. It was clearly an outright
> lie what he said. He obviously knew there was an issue at that time.

> 2.) Obviously on Friday the "insiders" knew something was happened as
> volume flooded onto the market.

> 3.) The timing of the Chase deal is very fishy. It was finalized on a
> weekend when 99.9% of traders don't have the ability to trade shares.
> So basically by the time the market opens on Monday, every shareholder
> is screwed.

> 4.) How a company can go from $80+ in book value per share, to $0 in 2
> days needs to be investigated.

> 5.) It is slightly odd that a Henry Paulson, former Goldman Sachs CEO,
> seemed to play an integral role in this. If any company is helped by
> the shutdown of Bear Sterns it will be Goldman Sachs.

> 6.) Why is Chase getting a sweetheart dealing getting Bear Sterns for
> $2/share, yet not taking any risk on liabilities? They get Bear
> Sterns assets, but the Fed is taking all the risk if the collateral
> fails.

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