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Celebration Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-15-11 12:07 PM
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MF Global Clients Accuse J.P. Morgan of Overreach in Bankruptcy
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204323904577038204231407324.html

A group representing former customers of MF Global Holdings Ltd. on Monday charged that J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. is trying to unfairly claim their assets in a court tussle over the remains of the failed broker-dealer.

The Commodity Customer Coalition, which said in a statement Monday that it "informally" represents more than 2,500 clients of MF Global, objected to the idea that they be required to shoulder the firm's losses after an estimated $600 million was discovered missing from customer accounts, raising the possibility that MF Global mixed the funds with its own money.

"We're simply asserting that if MF Global commingled funds from customer accounts, or cannot properly account for them, J.P. Morgan can't lay claim to those funds as if they were their own," said James Koutoulas, chief executive of Typhon Capital Management LLC, a former client of MF Global who has led the organization of other customers.

"Moreover, since there is excess equity in MF Global's estate, that money has to go to customers to make them whole, it's that simple," Mr. Koutoulas said in a statement.










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ChairmanAgnostic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-15-11 12:13 PM
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1. No honor between thieves, is there?
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