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Voldemort The Goat

RIP: Friends, activists mourn the loss of Tea Party champion Chip Gerdes

http://twitter.com/#!/DLoesch/status/331431651550851072

Quincy, Illinois, Tea Party activist Chip Gerdes passed away early this morning after suffering a heart attack. He leaves behind a wife and daughter.

Prayers for a great man and his family: danaloeschradio.com/prayers-for-a-… #rolltide

— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) May 6, 2013

Tea Partyers across the Twittersphere are mourning his untimely death and paying their respects to their friend and fellow happy warrior:

If you knew Chip, I am joining you in mourning our great loss and that of his wife and family. This is devastating. #RIP @tookiew

— Chris Loesch (@ChrisLoesch) May 6, 2013

Yes, the news is true. We’ve lost our good friend Chip today. Please keep his wife & child in your thoughts. I love you always, @tookiew.

— Mandy Nagy (@Liberty_Chick) May 6, 2013

The comedic stylings of @tookiew made my CPACing this year extra enjoyable.Prayers to his family and loved ones for their loss.

— sarah (@mamaswati) May 6, 2013

Friend of the film @tookiew aka Chip Gerdes passed away this morning. Condolences to his family and friends.

— Hating Breitbart (@HatingBreitbart) May 6, 2013

I didn’t know @tookiewbut damn. RIP and prayers to his friends and family. Tweeting one day; gone the next. Life is too damn short.

— LilMissBourbonBroad (@LilMissRightie) May 6, 2013

Eternal rest grant to @tookiew Lord. Peace to his family and. Friends

— Bill Hennessy (@whennessy) May 6, 2013

@tookiew I will miss you.Prayers for your family.May God keep you.

— Super Abe (@SuperAbe2014) May 6, 2013

Saddened by the news that the always enthusiastic and relentless Chip Gerdes, @tookiew has passed away this morning.

— Allison Worsham (@allison_worsham) May 6, 2013

@chrisloesch @dloesch @tookiew This LSU fan salutes a great American and Bama fan. #SECfamilyties – prayers to his family.

— jerie shirley black (@jerieblack) May 6, 2013

@tookiew I will miss you…I will scream #RollTide extra loud for you..prayers for your wife and beloved child

— Katie O’Malley (@katieomalley) May 6, 2013

A patriot among us has passed. God bless @tookiew.and prayers for his family. #RIP

— Joe the Patriotic (@joethepatriotic) May 6, 2013

I’m so sorry to hear about @tookiew … Heartfelt condolences and prayers to his family <3

— christinakb (@christinakb) May 6, 2013

Such sad news. Prayers to @tookiew‘s family. God bless them and keep them.

— Kimberly C(@conkc2) May 6, 2013

So sad to hear of the passing of @tookiew. Prayers for his family.

— David Bossie (@David_Bossie) May 6, 2013

Man, @tookiew. That guy loved life and what he did and had more fun living it than most people ever will. RIP

— Derek Hunter (@derekahunter) May 6, 2013

So many great memories with @tookiew. Trying to wrap my head around the fact that he’s gone.

— Brittany Cohan (@bccohan) May 6, 2013

@tonykatz Truly sad. @tookiew was beloved. Most people never heard of Chip, because he insisted on anonymity. R.I.P. @hatingbreitbart

— Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) May 6, 2013

Sad to hear highly-regarded conservative activist @tookiew (Chip Gerdes) passed away this morning.

— Steven Ertelt (@StevenErtelt) May 6, 2013

Sad to hear of @tookiew‘s passing. Colorful politico who used to call me up to talk Bama football. #RollTide

— Alex Pappas (@AlexPappas) May 6, 2013

Oh gosh – Just saw the tweets about @tookiew – I don’t even know what to say….. #Heartbroken #RIPChip =(

— Susie Moore (@SmoosieQ) May 6, 2013

Prayers for @tookiew‘s family and friends. “The Lord is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit.” Psalm 34:18

— Amy Lutz (@amylutz4) May 6, 2013

Our thoughts and prayers are with his loved ones. May he rest in peace.

Australians right now

Sickos see where man who allegedly threatened Boehner’s life ‘is coming from’

http://twitter.com/#!/eriContrarian/status/464847930478694400

Last night, a man was arrested for allegedly threatening the life of Rep. John Boehner. The suspect is reportedly upset because Congress hasn’t extended unemployment insurance:

http://twitter.com/#!/LukeRussert/status/464843110766243840 http://twitter.com/#!/LukeRussert/status/464844631931236352

More details from Politico:

Brandon James Thompson was receiving unemployment checks for $341 each month, and they ended Jan. 11, according to an FBI affidavit. Thompson allegedly made a number of threats on Boehner’s website and to his wife’s cell phone. Thompson had a concealed carry permit and no criminal history, the FBI said. He admitted to the threatening calls, the FBI said.

Believe it or not, there are those who think that what the man is accused of doing is wrong, but at the same time they could sort of understand his frustration with Boehner:

http://twitter.com/#!/Ithinkitscatchy/status/464846093952753664 http://twitter.com/#!/isee61/status/464845798329430016 http://twitter.com/#!/Gimmeabud/status/464850748988456960

Just another day in the land of “new tone.”

Diablo

Inception

Morgan Stanley Reaches $2.6 Billion Settlement Over Mortgage-Backed Securities

The bank said it had reached a preliminary agreement with the Justice Department today.

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Morgan Stanley, one of two remaining large independent investment banks, said today that it had reached a preliminary $2.6 billion settlement with the Justice Department over its dealings with mortgage-backed securities before the financial crisis.

The company said in a filing today that the civil division of the Justice Department and the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of California had intended to bring civil charges against the bank, and it has increased its reserves for legal losses by $2.8 billion. The bank said that while an agreement had been reached, “there can be no assurance that the Company and the Civil Division will agree on the final documentation of the settlement.”

Because Morgan Stanley has yet to file its form 10-Q for the fourth quarter, the charge from the settlement will hit its net income for last year. When Morgan Stanley preliminarily announced its fourth-quarter results, it said that it had set aside $284 million to deal with “legacy residential mortgage legal expenses.” But the $2.8 billion it has now set aside still outpaces the $2.6 billion it has agreed to with the Justice Department.

While Morgan Stanley didn’t say exactly how the money will be divvied up, there is a clue in looking at past settlements. When other big banks have settled civil claims over their marketing and sales of mortgage-backed securities, they tend to pay out to both the Justice Department and some states whose attorneys general have pursued investigations of them. In the $7 billion settlement with Citigroup, for example, the bank paid a $4 billion civil penalty to the Justice Department and almost $300 million to five states.

In a regulatory filing in November, Morgan Stanley said that the Virginia Attorney General had filed a civil suit against it over sales of mortgage securities to the Virginia Retirement System, which administers pension plans for state employees, and Illinois’ Attorney General had sent it a letter alleging that Morgan Stanley had “knowingly made misrepresentations related to RMBS” sold to pension funds affiliated with the state and demanded Morgan Stanley pay $88 million.

Morgan Stanley is the latest bank to shell out for a large settlement to resolve a Justice Department civil investigation of its pre-financial-crisis creation and marketing of mortgage-backed securities. The bundles of home loans packaged into bonds and sold to investors were central to the financial meltdown and recession that followed. Bank of America paid $16.65 billion to settle with the Justice Department and other regulators, while JPMorgan Chase paid $13 billion.

The Wall Street Journal reported earlier this week that Goldman Sachs was “inching closer to resolving U.S. claims” that it had “misled investors in mortgage bonds that plummeted in value during the financial crisis.”

Goldman said in a regulatory filing that it had raised its estimate for legal losses from $2.5 billion to $3 billion. Goldman said in the filing that the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of California had sent the bank a letter “stating in connection with potentially bringing a civil action that it had preliminarily concluded that the firm had violated federal law in connection with its underwriting, securitization and sale of residential mortgage-backed securities.”