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Oct.17
2:31 PM ET
Friday, 17 Oct 2008
How Your Fake CEOs Say "I'm Sorry" (Pt 5) And Make Money
Posted By:Jane Wells
Topics:Media
Sectors:Media

More "fake" apologies--including an ingenious way to profit from them.

Funny Business Comments:

Rick Kellogg weigh in as both Lehman's Fake Dick Fuld AND seemingly as the taxpayer:
"I wake up every night, staring out at the moon lit ocean thinking about what I could have done differently. There’s an apology in there somewhere.

Maybe the admission that his actions are causing him to lose sleep. Or maybe, having to stare out at the moonlit ocean from the window of his multi-million dollar home.

For all of us middle aged folks who can never sleep through the night, I feel his pain.

Most of us now have a new reason for waking up and worrying, we just don’t have the same windows to look out."

Anonymous also takes on Fake Fuld, but with a profit motive:

"Richard Fuld LLC is pleased to issue

The Apologies

$10 million senior profuse apologies

$20 million subordinated sorries

$50 million junior shrugs

These apologies are announced as a matter of record only"

From Rhdsousa:
"My fellow citizens: I am Sen. Dodd (could also be Schumer, Barney Frank or B Obama) and have come here today not to bury Wall Street but to praise it. I am sorry that we in Congress have created such a mess with Freddie and Fannie. When we had the chance to (clean them up) in 2005/6 we did not, and we, in fact, said that there was nothing wrong with these two, even though they had cooked their books, for we were afraid that the homeless would not get mortgages before the 2008 elections, and so we would not get re-elected. (Never mind that we put the management of Enron/Worldcom through the wringer for the same offenses).

Who do you ask is the 'we'? They are my friends Barney Frank of MA, and Chuck Schumer of NY. ( I must also add the other congressmen/senators of CT, VA, IL, SC and MA, states in which banks held 85% of the preferred stock in these two companies - which they have promptly lost, of course).

Never mind the hearings. (We) just want to divert the wolves to the other side. After all, we foxes are going to continue to be in charge of the henhouse.

Sincerely,

Sen C Dodd - (D) CT"

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