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stevenleser

(32,886 posts)
Fri Apr 12, 2013, 05:56 PM Apr 2013

xpost from LBN: Ex-Credit Suisse Executive Pleads Guilty to Inflating Value of Mortgage Bonds

Source: New York Times

A former senior trader at Credit Suisse Group pleaded guilty on Friday to charges that he fraudulently inflated the value of mortgage bonds as the housing market collapsed, becoming one of the highest-ranking Wall Street executives to admit to crimes related to the 2008 financial crisis.

Kareem Serageldin, the former Credit Suisse trader, admitted to mismarking their positions to avoid losses in their investment portfolio at the end of 2007. He appeared in Federal District Court in Manhattan a week after being extradited from Britain.

During the court hearing, Mr. Serageldin, 39, said that after discovering that members of his team were fudging the value of its bond portfolio, he made the fateful decision to participate in the fraud rather than put an end to it.

Read more: http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2013/04/12/ex-credit-suisse-executive-pleads-guilty-to-inflating-value-of-mortgage-bonds/
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Looks like we have at least one investment banker going to jail for the fraud that led to the financial crisis.

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xpost from LBN: Ex-Credit Suisse Executive Pleads Guilty to Inflating Value of Mortgage Bonds (Original Post) stevenleser Apr 2013 OP
Good news. I read he was forced to return his bonus, but that is not enough. PA Democrat Apr 2013 #1

PA Democrat

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1. Good news. I read he was forced to return his bonus, but that is not enough.
Fri Apr 12, 2013, 06:01 PM
Apr 2013

Personally, I think these guys need to have every stinking dime of their assets seized because it would still be a drop in the bucket compared to the financial harm they caused.

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