Wednesday, June 14, 2006

About Soros: A great question

Betsy Newmark posts with a question:

"Will every mention of his name now be preceded by the words 'convicted felon?'"
She continues :
It would seem appropriate for a man found guilty of insider trading.

George Soros's bid to overturn an insider-trading conviction was rejected by France's highest appeals court, ending the billionaire's fight to erase a legal stain on his 40-year investing career.

The Court of Cassation, the tribunal of last resort in France, ended its review of a March 2005 judgment that Soros broke insider-trading laws when he bought Societe Generale SA shares in 1988 with the knowledge that the bank might be a takeover target. The Hungary-born financier has been fighting the case for 17 years.
Fighting the case for 17 years?

Goodness, that's almost as long as Sen. Kerry's carried in his briefcase the "magic hat" he says a CIA agent - no wait - it was a Navy Seal - gave him as he ferried the fellow on a secret mission into Cambodia at Christmas.

Or was it Formosa at Easter?

Anyway, one of them or some other place and time I'm sure.

Now to answer Betsy's question :
Will every mention of his name now be preceded by the words "convicted felon?"
Yes, if Soros leaves the America-bashing left and becomes a conservative.

Great question, Betsy. The croissants are on me.

1 comments:

Anonymous said...

Just so you know, Soros actually is center-right. His dislike of Bush comes from his anti-authoritarian inclinations.