Fleishr

How is this still happening?

Hello,
Thanks for the response concerning my apartment and i want you to know that the apartment is still available for rent and you will have to fill the apartment application form and i want you to know that i am not in the country for now and am out of the country to attend to my other client for my other apartment in (NIGERIAN) and i want you to know that you will have to fill the application form,So that i can give you the apartment address,so that you can check the apartment .i want you to know that the apartment have been locked and you will have to drive pass just to view the apartment and the area,i want you to fill the application Below::::

Apartment Application Form Below:::::::::::::::::::::::::::
Full Name:::::::::::::::::::::
Physical Address::::::::::::::::::::::::
Phone Number::::::::::::::
Do you have a Pet::::::::::
Do you have a Car:::::::::
Do you Smoke:::::::::::::::
Do you Drink::::::::::::::::
Have You Married:::::::::::
How many people coming to the apartment::::::
How old are you::::::::::::
How Many Kids Do You have::::::
What is your Occupation::::::
How many Month or Year Do you want to Stay::::::
get back to me as soon as you fill the application form,so that i can let you know how you will get to the apartment. Hope to read for your lovely and nice email as well.or you call me on this no 2348028263066.

Thanks

Mr Eric.

Did we say $700B? JK!!

Don’t know Neil M. Barofsky? What, you don’t remember when the 38-y-o Violet was plucked from the U.S. attorney’s office in Manhattan to oversee the TARP distribution? Oh hai! He’s here to tell you the “bailout” you initially thought was $700 billion is more like $3 trillion.

The report also warned that the Treasury’s $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program has evolved into a $3 trillion effort of “unprecedented scope, scale and complexity” and comes with too little oversight and too little information about what companies are doing with the taxpayer money they are getting.

— Edmund L. Andrews, The New York Times

There’s evidence enough already for 20 criminal investigations, Barofsky said in a report (PDF) released today.

The report said little about who is under investigation and how the fraudulent schemes work, but investigators are already on alert for a long list of potential scams. Such schemes could include obtaining bailout money under false pretenses, bilking the government with phony mortgage modifications, and cheating on taxes with fraudulent filings.

“You don’t need an entirely corrupt institution to pull one of these schemes off,” Barofsky said. “You only need a few corrupt managers whose compensation may be tied to the performance of these assets in order to effectively pull off a collusion or a kickback scheme.”

— Ralph Vartabedian and Tom Hamburger, Tribune

Confused? Afraid? So are the banks! lawyer says.

Charles Clark, a lawyer with the firm Kirkland & Ellis, said banks that got TARP money worry that they could be prosecuted for conduct they thought was legal at the time. “Companies are fearful that the regulatory structure could be built on the backs of criminal defendants,” said Clark, who helped direct the Securities and Exchange Commission’s investigation of Enron eight years ago.

— Matt Kelley, USA Today

Bonus! Neil vs. Neel.

In response to the report, Neel Kashkari, head of the bailout program, defended the government rescue plan.

“Our actions must be in the long-term interest of taxpayers, considering both the potential risks to taxpayers of action and also the potential risks to taxpayers of inaction,” Kashkari wrote. “We believe our programs strike the right balance.”

— Amit R. Paley, The Washington Post