JPMorgan Acts to Buy Ailing Bear Stearns at Huge Discount — Bear Stearns, facing collapse because of the mortgage crisis, agreed Sunday evening to be bought by JPMorgan Chase for a bargain-basement price of less than $250 million, the two companies announced.
McGreevey aide says he had sexual trysts with ex-governor, wife — A former aide to James E. McGreevey said today that he had three-way sexual trysts with the former governor and his wife before he took office, challenging Dina Matos McGreevey's assertion that she was naive about her husband's sexual exploits.
GOP Gags Witnesses on Credit Card Woes --Partisan Maneuver Blocked Testimony on Fee Hikes They came to the nation’s capital this week from as far away as Denver, Chicago and Niagara Falls--five people who’d had tough experiences with their credit cards and were asked to share those tales with a House panel. Instead, they ran headfirst into the buzz-saw of Washington politics when the panel’s Republicans insisted the visitors allow their lenders to discuss their financial histories publicly--in any forum, at any time. For four of the five, it was a deal-breaker. Instead of signing the waivers allowing them to testify Thursday, they all sat silently in the audience.
Senator's Supporters Are Invited to Lunch With a Lord Sen. John McCain plans at least one campaign event on his week-long photo-op in Europe and the Middle East: a March 20 fundraiser in London. An invitation sent out by the campaign says the luncheon will be held at Spencer House, St. James's Place, "by kind permission of Lord Rothschild OM GBE and the Hon Nathaniel Rothschild." Tickets to the invitation-only event cost $1,000 to $2,300.
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Stockholders at Bear Stern have launched a class action suit, about this sale to Chase. The stockholders don't want this bargain basement sale to go through.
While this was all happening the CEO was in some poker tournament!
WHO can STAND it?
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