Intel Executives Make Decisions that Shareholders Take the Hit On? Looks like a RICO Pattern and History to ME. Massive Shareholder Liability Alert.

Funny Intel Shareholders don't even Know what CEO Paul Otellini is hiding from them and has been for many - MANY years on the Biggest Liability that Intel Corp. has ever seen.

Way before the Legal Issues with Advanced Micro Devices, and Billions in Fines .. there was and Still is the Trillion Dollar Liability of the Iviewit Technologies Company and the Stolen Technology that has made Billions on top of Billions and still is for Intel Corp. and many others involved in this High Finance Liability that shareholders will one day soon be FORCED to looked at AND that will be a Very Jagged Pill to Swallow.

November 2009 Article - Charles A. Gilman Got Moxy and Charles Gilman is VERY right in this request, Intel Executives are not Playing fair and NOT disclosing KNOWN Liabilities to this Day.

It is NOT the Intel Shareholder's Fault, they were no part of the Decisions and SHOULD not take the Financial Hit for It.

"" Intel shareholder wants execs to pay $2.7B in fines

He doesn't want the company on the hook for antitrust fines, settlement
By Sharon Gaudin.

Computerworld -

An Intel Corp. investor, frustrated that the chip maker has been hit with $2.7 billion in fines and settlement payments, has filed suit in U.S. District Court in Delaware against the company and its top executives.

Charles A. Gilman wants the court to force company executives, including Intel President and CEO Paul Otellini, to fork over money for the fines and payments so shareholders don't take a financial hit.

The lawsuit was filed the same week Intel reached a settlement with Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) to end all antitrust litigation between the two companies. As part of the deal, Intel agreed to pay rival AMD $1.25 billion.

That followed a ruling in May by the European Commission in which Intel was found guilty of antitrust violations in the market for PC microprocessors and fined it $1.44 billion.

Gilman, who refers to himself in court documents as a "long-time shareholder," doesn't think the company and its shareholders should suffer for Intel's actions.

In a document filed in court, Gilman's attorneys contend that shareholder attempts to influence Intel's board of directors have "proved fruitless. ...Indeed, shareholder demands have been met with outright hostility, which can only bespeak bad faith."

The document also contends that Intel's board refused to investigate the antitrust charges against the company or to appoint an independent committee to review the charges and take remedial action, if needed.

" The antagonism of Intel's Board of Directors to the shareholders' demand is readily explained by growing evidence that the antitrust scheme, which spanned three continents, and which has so far led to over $1 billion in fines, was personally directed by CEO Otellini and by Intel's former board chairman, Craig R. Barrett," the document alleges.

Ezra Gottheil, an analyst with Technology Business Research, Inc., said he's not surprised by the suit. "Someone always sues," he said, adding that he's never heard of company executives being forced to pay for any fines or settlements.

One of Gilman's attorneys, Roy Jacobs, of the firm Law Offices of Roy Jacobs in Manhattan, declined to comment on the suit. So did another Gilman attorney, Robert Goldberg, who is with Biggs and Battaglia, a Delaware law firm.

For its part, Intel promised to fight the suit. "We disagree with the plaintiff in the matter and we are planning a vigorous defense," said Chuck Mulloy, an Intel spokesman

In addition to Otellini, those named in the suit include: former CEO and ex-Chairman of the Board Barrett; directors James Plummer and Susan Decker; and former directors Carol Bartz, D. James Guzy Sr., David Pottruck, Jane Shaw, David Yoffie, Charlene Barshefsky, John Donahoe and Frank Yeary. ""


Source of Post and Article Link
http://www.computerworld.com/
s/article/9141168/Intel_shareholder_wants_execs_to_pay_2.7B_in_fines


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More on the Intel Liability with the Iviewit Technologies
Stolen Patent at www.DeniedPatent.com and www.Iviewit.TV

Also Check out www.CEOPaulOtellini.com and www.BruceSewell.com
for Intel Corp's Role in this Massive Shareholder Fraud.
Intel CEO Paul Otellini
Durward Bruce Sewell
Shareholder Activism, Advocate - Shareholder watch

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Warner Bros. Signed Agreements with Iviewit and Violated them, Creating Major Shareholder Liability.

Below is information on an Alleged Trillion Dollar Fraud Against the Shareholders of Warner Bros. Entertainment, AOL Inc. and Time Warner.

There is a whole lot of back up and proof in this Allegation. Shareholder of Warner Bros. Entertainment, AOL Inc. and Time Warner - You NEED to Take a Look at This.

"" Official Formal Complaint sent by Official SEC Email and Official Email Addresses to Other Investigatory Agencies and Committees addressed herein, Against Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc., AOL Inc. and Time Warner, regarding Trillion Dollar alleged fraud on Shareholders ""

"Complaint filed against, including but not limited to;

Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc.

Chairman and CEO: Barry M. Meyer

President and COO: Alan F. Horn

EVP and CFO: Edward A. Romano

Vice President and Chief Patent Counsel: Wayne M. Smith

AOL, Inc.

Chairman and CEO: Tim Armstrong

General Counsel and Executive Vice President, Corporate Development: Ira Parker

Assistant General Counsel - Patent Litigation, Prosecution, and Licensing: Christopher Day

Executive Escalation Team: Jerry McKinley

Time Warner, Inc. Chairman and Chief Executive Officer: Jeffrey L. Bewkes

Executive Vice President and General Counsel of Time Warner Inc.: Paul T. Cappuccio

Potential Catastrophic Effects to the Shareholders of Warner Bros. The Fraud Seemingly Proven in this SEC Complaint Could Trigger Rescissory Shareholder Rights.

"" To further establish the urgency and Time Sensitive nature of this FORMAL COMPLAINT, please note that the criminal fraud and other crimes described herein will likely trigger Rescissory Rights of Shareholders at all of the respective and related companies of Warner Bros et al., which likely will have Catastrophic impact on both the companies and its Shareholders.

Therefore, the SEC must instantly investigate these matters and instantly bring the matters to the attention of the Warner Bros et al.

Shareholders, Auditors, Financial Institutions and all other parties with potential liabilities resulting from the allegations herein and whereby if the companies and their Executives fail to notify Shareholders and Regulators, the SEC must act quickly to notify them.

The SEC must begin immediate investigation of the Securities Frauds described herein and prevent ongoing and future fraudulent corporate transactions from further harming Shareholders of Warner Bros et al.

Further, I point out to the SEC herein what looks like a recent pattern of Shareholder Fraud and Deceit done with Scienter, beginning on or about March 2009, by Officers, Directors, Counsel and Auditors for Warner Bros et al., which are alleged to have been done in order to commit further fraud upon the Warner Bros et al. Shareholders.

That these recent corporate restructurings may be the result of Key Executives of Warner Bros et al. attempting to abscond with corporate assets through a series of recent complex corporate breakups.

The breakups began immediately after I contacted Warner Bros. in March 2009 with my business consultant Kevin Hall, Esq. (“Hall”), regarding massive unreported liabilities to their Shareholders[4].

Liabilities resulting from Warner Bros et. al’s involvement in my Twelve Count Twelve Trillion Dollar Federal RICO and ANTITRUST Lawsuit and additional liabilities resulting from the knowing infringement of my Intellectual Properties and for their failure to report these liabilities under FASB No.5 and other laws.

This Formal Complaint for Investigation of Warner Bros et al. on this day, Friday, February 12, 2010 comes after Hall and I made repeated Good Faith attempts since March 2009 to address the Business and Corporate Responsibility issues with Executives, Officers, Board Members and Auditors at the respective companies.

Warner Bros et al. was contacted in order to find possible solutions to avoid catastrophic events from occurring to their Shareholders, if possible, prior to further actions with investigators, including the SEC.

The following timeline of events will establish the correlations between the allegations of fraud described herein, in relation to the timing of the corporate restructurings of Warner Bros et al.

Correlations in time with both the 2001 merger and now in the 2009 breakup with the frauds described herein, will provide the SEC a basis, mired in factual evidence, to begin immediate investigation of this complaint for massive securities fraud, in order to protect Shareholders from further possible related losses in these highly traded blue chip stocks. ""

The Above Quote is Some of the Iviewit SEC Complaint Filed Recently by Eliot I. Bernstein of Iviewit Technologies Against Warner Bros.

Click HERE for More Details on Warner Bros. Involvement
and your Warner Bros., AOL, Time Warner Inc. Shareholder Liability.

This Blatant Ignoring of a Liability This Large is
Something that Warner Bros., AOL, and Time Warner Inc.
Need to Know and Right Now...

Click Here for Full SEC Complaint to Find Out Your Liability
in a Trillion Dollar Stolen Technology that is Now Used in
Every House in America if Not the World.

Another Blog of Interest On Warner Bros. Role in
the Stolen Iviewit Patent

www.JeffreyBewkes.com

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Industry Whistleblower

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FINRA Board To Address Allegations Of Mary Schapiro’s Misconduct

Is Mary Schapiro a Fox in the Hen House ?

"" Are the wagons circling around Mary Schapiro and her former FINRA colleagues?
Regular readers of Sense on Cents are familiar with the issues and concerns I have raised repeatedly with Wall Street’s self-regulator, FINRA.

I continue to believe the issues embedded within this self-regulatory organization lie near the heart of what I deem the Wall Street-Washington nexus.

Perhaps America will learn more about these issues soon. Why?

Next week, FINRA’s Board of Directors will address alleged wrongdoings by Ms. Schapiro et al. What are the issues? Please review this release put out this morning highlighting a number of questions I have been asking for the last year.

Will the Board realize it ultimately needs to be accountable to ALL its member firms and, by extension, to the American public at large? Will the Obama administration compel the Board to provide the transparency America so badly wants?

FINRA MUST OPEN ITS BOOKS and RECORDS and ANSWER to AMERICA!!
FINRA BOARD TO CONSIDER ALLEGED WRONGDOING BY FORMER CHAIR MARY SCHAPIRO AND HER COLLEAGUES

Feb. 10 Closed Door Board Meeting to Consider Broker-Dealer’s Allegations
WASHINGTON, DC, February 4 - On February 10, 2010, the Board of Governors of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. (”FINRA”) will consider allegations of gross mismanagement set forth in a December 4, 2009 letter to the Board on behalf of Amerivet Securities, Inc. (”Amerivet”), a member of FINRA.

The letter demands that FINRA take action against Mary Schapiro and other senior FINRA executives to recover excessive compensation and unprecedented portfolio losses stemming from FINRA’s dismal 2008 regulatory and investment performance. In 2008, Ms. Schapiro’s last year as FINRA chair, that organization:

Failed to act against Bernard Madoff and Robert Allen Stanford, who perpetrated two of the largest Ponzi schemes in history;

Failed to act against large FINRA members Lehman Brothers, Bear Stearns and Merrill Lynch in connection with their roles in the subprime mortgage securities scandals;

Failed to warn investors about Auction Rate Securities (ARS) problems, after FINRA had liquidated its own ARS holdings in mid-2007, but before the ARS market “froze” and there were any public disclosures about the risks inherent in such “investments”;

Suffered nearly $700 million in loses;

PAID ITS SENIOR EXECUTIVES NEARLY $30 MILLION.
Broker-Dealer: “Schapiro and Colleagues Bilked FINRA of Millions”
Amerivet principal, Lt. Col. Elton Johnson (U.S. Army Reserve), an Iraq War combat veteran, stated:

“Despite President Obama’s call for accountability for wrongdoing, past and present, Mary Schapiro and her colleagues have thus far gotten away with bilking FINRA of tens of millions of dollars in 2008, even as that self-regulatory organization failed in its fundamental responsibility to protect investors, and FINRA sustained nearly $700 million in financial loses. It is ironic that Mary Schapiro received a salary more than 15 times that of a four star general, while FINRA was, by any measure, failing miserably.”

Whistleblower: FINRA “Definitely In Bed With Industry”
During his 2009 testimony, Madoff whistleblower Harry Markopolos told Congress that FINRA is “definitely in bed with the industry” and “[gets] an A+ for corruption.” Separately, a report from SEC Inspector General David Kotz quotes Bernard Madoff as referring to Ms. Schapiro as a “dear friend.”

Attorney Richard Greenfield added:
“The excessive compensation packages for the FINRA self-regulatory executives who failed to regulate represent cynical and hypocritical examples of the incestuous Wall Street-Washington relationships that have incensed voters across the United States.”

Amerivet is a small broker-dealer located in Moreno Valley, California and a member in good standing of FINRA. Lt. Col. Johnson has been an officer in the United States Army Reserve for 24 years.

He has completed two tours of duty in Iraq, he is currently on active military duty at Fort Irwin, CA, and he will soon begin preparations for deployment to Afghanistan later this year.

What will the Board do? For whom are they working?
High time we received real truth, transparency, and integrity. ""

Source of Post
http://www.dailymarkets.com/economy/2010/02/04/finra-board-to-address-allegations-of-mary-schapiros-misconduct/
mary schapiro
Mary Schapiro has had plenty of advanced warning to Help the Shareholders of Time Warner, Intel, Lockheed Martin,IBM, Sony, Warner Bros., AOL and More with an SEC Complaint Filed by Iviewit Technologies Owner Eliot Bernstein. Click Here to Read That SEC Complaint.

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Crystal L. Cox
crystal cox whistleblower
More on the Trillion Dollar Iviewit Stolen Patent at
www.DeniedPatent.com and www.Iviewit.TV
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American Century Investments - Steven Brown - Neuberger Berman News and Gossip..

Is there more to Steven Brown Leaving Neuberger Berman? If you know anything, Email Me at Crystal@CrystalCox.com - Investigative Blogger.

Crystal L. Cox
Industry Whistleblower

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Thomas Foley - Maurice Greenberg

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Wayne L. Berman - Bush Senior Administration - Carlyle Group

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Wayne L. Berman Lobbyist and Owner, Berman Enterprises, Inc

Name: Wayne L. Berman
Occupation: Lobbyist & Owner, Berman Enterprises, Inc.
Industry: Lawyers & Lobbyists
Home: Washington, DC

Political Contributions: Bush Gubernatorial Races: $16,000
Republican Hard Money: $136,128
Republican Soft Money: $0
Democratic Hard Money: $0
Democratic Soft Money: $0
Federal PAC Hard Money: $13,750
Total Contributions: $165,878

Soft Money from Employer: $165,300
to Republicans: $165,300
to Democrats: $0

This ex-Bush Administration Commerce Department assistant secretary suspended Bush Pioneer fundraising to comply with a federal probe into his ties to ex-Connecticut treasurer Paul Silvester.

Silvester was convicted in 99 of taking kickbacks from the private money managers to whom he awarded contracts to invest state pension funds. Four other Pioneers were large donors to Silvesters campaign (Herbert Collins, Thomas Foley, Maurice Greenberg and Peter Terpeluk, Jr.). Berman snagged a $500,000 finders fee for helping Pioneer Greenbergs AIG Capital Partners land a contract to invest $100 million of these pension funds.

Berman hired Silvester to work with his lobby firm (which was then Park Strategies) after Silvester lost a 98 re-election bid (see also Pioneer Christopher Burnham, another ex-Connecticut Treasurer who left office under an ethical cloud). Berman has lobbied for two other firms that won major investment contracts from Silvester.

These firms are PaineWebber and the Carlyle Group. The Carlyle Group was started by top officials in the Bush seniors administration (who reportedly gifted the former president an equity stake in this firm). Another Berman lobby client is the plaintiff firm Scruggs Millette Lawson Bozeman & Dent, which made a fortune leading state lawsuits against the tobacco industry. Finally, Berman lobbies for Flo-Sun, the Everglades sugar company owned by the First Family of Corporate Welfare.

The Fanjul family has such extraordinary political access that President Clinton took a call from Alfonso Fanjul while being serviced by Monica Lewinsky.



Source of POST
http://info.tpj.org/pioneers/wayne_berman.html

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The Carlyle Group - "Neuberger spokesman Randall Whitestone declined to comment." Fall 2008 Financial News Archives

""Neuberger Berman sale not a done deal
Fund firm's value could wane amid volatile markets;
portfolio managers favor Bain-Hellman bid

By David Hoffman
November 23, 2008 12:01 AM ET

(Investment News)—Although the sale of Neuberger Berman was thought to be a done deal more than a month ago, the company is still in limbo as an auction process drags on—one that could do damage to the company's value, according to industry experts.

A former subsidiary of Lehman Brothers, Neuberger was orphaned when Lehman went belly-up in September.

Private equity firms Bain Capital Partners and Hellman & Friedman announced Sept. 29 that they were going to acquire Neuberger for $2.15 billion in partnership with its portfolio managers, the management team and senior professionals.

But that deal was challenged by another private equity firm, the Carlyle Group, and former Neuberger chief executive Jeffrey Lane.

Mr. Lane and Carlyle argued that the process that resulted in the Bain-Hellman & Friedman acquisition was flawed and did not allow Lehman to get the best deal possible for Neuberger. As a result, on Oct. 17 the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in New York approved a new auction, which ends Dec. 1.

The tussle can't help but hurt Neuberger. Theoretically, a floor of $2.15 billion has been set as the asking price. But given the fact that all asset managers, including Neuberger, have been hemorrhaging assets in volatile markets these last few months, “I wonder how permanent that floor really is,” said Burton Greenwald, a mutual fund consultant in Philadelphia.

Not including money-market funds, Neuberger saw $615.97 million come out of its funds in October and $302.07 million leave in September, according to Morningstar.

Adding to concerns, two managers recently left the firm.

Milu Kromer, co-manager of the $451 million Neuberger Berman International Fund, left the company for New York value manager Cramer Rosenthal McGlynn. And Steven Brown, lead manager of the $41 million Neuberger Berman Real Estate Trust, left for American Century Investments of Kansas City, Mo.

Any departures during a time of uncertainty raise concerns, said David Kathman, a mutual fund analyst at Morningstar. But the departures of Ms. Kromer and Mr. Brown probably aren't cause for alarm, he said, because they were not high-profile managers.

Other portfolio managers likely won't leave the firm, he said.

They have good reason not to. If the Bain-Hellman deal holds up after the auction process—something industry experts said is still a strong possibility—it's believed that portfolio managers have agreements in place with the two private equity firms that would give them a great deal of control over Neuberger, Mr. Kathman said.

Neuberger spokesman Randall Whitestone declined to comment.

There is no doubt, however, that a majority of Neuberger portfolio managers want the Bain-Hellman deal to go through, Mr. Kathman said. “They are hoping they can sell to Bain/Hellman like they agreed. If they can't, it's another wrench that could cause complications.”

That's because most of the names being bandied about as potential buyers of Neuberger are other private equity firms, said Geoff Bobroff, a mutual fund consultant in East Greenwich, R.I. Most private equity firms don't hold on to their investments for long, and that can be disruptive, he said.

A prime example is Delaware Investments of Philadelphia, Mr. Bobroff said.

The company was purchased in a leveraged buyout in 1988 by Legend Capital, a partnership managed by Castle Harlan, a New York private equity firm. In 1994, Legend sold Delaware to Lincoln National Corp., then in Fort Wayne, Ind.

At the time of the sale, Castle Harlan trumpeted the fact that since the initial acquisition, Delaware Investments' assets had increased by more than 50%. But after being acquired by Lincoln, Delaware went into a steep decline.

“I'm not a fan of private equity firms, because they don't have a long-term perspective,” Mr. Bobroff said. ""


Source of Post
http://www.financialweek.com/article/20081123/REG/311249988/1011/rss15

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There is so many Facts and Figures around the Neuberger Berman LLC Sale .. Why Did The Carlyle Group really "Challenge" the Deal?

November 16th 2008 News Archive of the Neuberger Berman Sale... Investigative Blogger Crystal L. Cox is looking to get to the bottom of Why PR Guy, Richard Chimberg is so Alarmed by a Post QUOTING a News Blog about the Neuberger Berman Sale and when it Really Closed - this Request of Immediate Action, Peeked the Blogger Curiousity of Industry Whistleblower and Investigative Blogger Crystal L. Cox -

SO if you have any information on the back end, secret deals, side deals - names - games and players behind the Neuberger Berman Sale.. or Why The Carlyle Group really "Challenged" the sale of the Neuberger Berman LLC Deal?

please Email your TIP to me at
Crystal@CrystalCox.com

"Sale of Neuberger Berman not quite a done deal

Carlyle, former chief of Neuberger challenge sale
By David Hoffman
November 16, 2008, 6:01 AM EST "

"Even though the sale of Neuberger Berman LLC of New York was thought to be a done deal more than a month ago, the company is still in limbo as an auction process drags on — one that could damage to the firm's value, according to industry experts.

A former subsidiary of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. of New York, Neuberger was orphaned when Lehman went belly up in September.

Private-equity firms Bain Capital Partners LLC of Boston and Hellman & Friedman LLC of San Francisco announced Sept. 29 that they were going to acquire Neuberger for $2.15 billion in partnership with its portfolio managers, the management team and senior professionals.

But that deal was challenged by The Carlyle Group, a Washington-based private-equity firm, and former Neuberger chief executive Jeffrey Lane.

The process that resulted in the Bain/Hellman & Friedman deal was flawed and did not allow Lehman to get the best deal possible for Neuberger, Carlyle and Mr. Lane argued. As a result, the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in New York on Oct. 17 approved a new auction, which ends Dec. 1.

The tussle can't help but hurt Neuberger. Theoretically, a floor of $2.15 billion has been set as the asking price. But given the fact that all asset managers, including Neuberger, have been hemorrhaging assets in volatile markets these last few months, "I wonder how permanent that floor really is," said Burton Greenwald, a Philadelphia-based mutual fund consultant.

Not including money market funds, Neuberger saw $615.97 million come out of its funds in October, and $302.07 million leave in September, according to Morningstar Inc. of Chicago.

Adding to concerns, two managers recently left the firm.

Milu Kromer, co-manager of the $451 million Neuberger Berman International Fund (NBISX), left the company for New York-based value manager Cramer Rosenthal McGlynn LLC. And Steven Brown, lead manager of the $41 million Neuberger Berman Real Estate Trust (NBRFX), left for American Century Investments of Kansas City, Mo. ""

Click Below to Read Source Document
http://www.investmentnews.com/article/20081116/REG/311179977

I wonder what the Above Document Said BEFORE the "Corrections" were made, I wonder what the CORRECTION were and if Randall Whitestone and Richard Chimberg were involved at all.

Ok so we have Bankruptcy Courts, we have International Funds, we have a possible deal that was selling Neuberger for Less then it's worth but Stopped by Mr. Lane - there is So Much Intrique here - I just have to Know more... Please Email me More to This Story - Crystal@CrystalCox.com I SMELL hundreds of millions of SOMEONES money in the wrong hands.. hmmm.. well I will just have to wait and see ..

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Old School Media King Richard Chimberg and Randy Whitestone Do NOT own their Dot Com.. WHY?

What if you Represented a 160 Billion Dollar Company
with your Super Duper PR Abilities ?

Ok so say you are Doing PR for Billion Dollar Companies.. oh and not ONE Billion but say around 160 Billion - and Say you like to brag about your Business Experience, and what you can offer to These Billionaire Companies in the Way of PR and Media Relations. ... Ok Say that you have been in the Media Relations business for around hmmm.. gee .. I don't know 25 years.. and this new fang led thing jumped up called the Internet?

Would you Embrace this new medium or discount it as a Passing Fad. And if you were a pretty big deal in the PR business for Financial Companies and this new Modern Media starting emerging, what would be the first thing you would do? Would you buy a computer? Talk to the Grandkids or the Kids and see how this thing works? Would you tell your clients.. oh Yeah I get this new media.. got a handle on it.. HIRE Me to Represent you Billion Dollar Hedge fund, I got ya Covered... (Wink and Nod) and then what.. you go learn all you can and away you go to writing articles and linking those PDF documents that look so official.. your the Spokesman for A mult-Billion Dollar Company... surely you must have missed something in that last decade...

Hmmm.. gee I am a Big Deal, I know that, I have Billionaire Clients so I must know what I am doing in the Media Relations Business.. hmm.. geeeeee I just know I am forgetting Something.. now what is it.. Oh Yeah to Buy RandallStone.com for $10 to build my Online Brand and let my Billionaire Clients know that I really do know what I am a doin' on this here computer stuff. Oh no .. it is to late now because the PR guy I hired for my Company.. tried to run a bluff on an Investigative Blogger before he had researched her and now she bought my dot com.

Now what do I do.. I sure Stepped in it.... Well I know.. I will Just Ignore it.. Surely in this new Modern Media Playing Field, Ignoring an Issues - or say a Non-Fact is Really the Best Way to Handle it Right?

Smart Ass Banter Brought to you by
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Facing a big loss, Lehman will sell majority stake in investment management unit

Quote...

"NEW YORK — Lehman Brothers, the investment bank in an all-out fight for its survival, said Wednesday that it expected a third-quarter loss of $3.9 billion, or $5.92 a share, after $5.6 billion in write-downs.

The investment bank also said that it would spin off the majority of its remaining commercial real estate holdings into a new public company to be owned by Lehman shareholders.

And it confirmed plans to sell a majority of its investment management division in a move that it expected to generate at least $3 billion and perhaps more.

Lehman still hopes to receive a majority of the net income from the unit by retaining higher-margin businesses like its stakes in individual hedge fund groups.

After initially jumping on the news, Lehman shares fluctuated in morning trading and were up 2 cents at $7.81 in late trading in New York.

The new decline came after Lehman's stock lost nearly half its value Tuesday as investors feared it was running out of options to raise capital and shore up its ailing balance sheet.

Shares in Lehman, a major underwriter of mortgage-related securities during the credit boom, are down more than 90 percent since hitting their peak last year, before the subprime mortgage crisis.

The tepid reaction to Lehman's announcements suggested that investors were eager to hear fewer words from Lehman and see more action.

"To decrease investor uncertainty, Lehman must have a definitive agreement by Monday to either sell its profitable asset management business, Neuberger Berman, sell a large portion of its subprime real estate exposure, reduce its leverage ratios or line up a deep-pocketed buyer to either buy the company outright or take a significant ownership stake - a lot to accomplish in three working days," said Mark Williams, a management professor at Boston University.
Lehman said Wednesday that it hoped to complete the spinoff of about $32 billion in commercial mortgage assets by early next year.
Among other decisions, Lehman also said that it would cut its annual dividend to 5 cents a share from 68 cents and that it remained committed to examining "all strategic alternatives to maximize shareholder value."
"This is an extraordinary time for our industry, and one of the toughest periods in the firm's history," the chief executive, Richard Fuld, said. "The strategic initiatives we have announced today reflect our determination to fundamentally reposition Lehman Brothers by dramatically reducing balance sheet risk, reinforcing our focus on our client-facing businesses and returning the firm to profitability."

On a conference call, Fuld said Lehman had been tested many times in the past and survived.
"This firm has a history of facing adversity and delivering. We have a long track record of pulling together when times are tough and taking advantage of global opportunities," he said on a conference call. "We are on the right track to put these last two quarters behind us."

Analysts said the planned spinoff reflected the poor state of the commercial mortgage markets.
"It's not a good sign," said Brad Hintz, an analyst with Sanford C. Bernstein. "It's really a sign of the illiquidity in the markets - that no one wants to buy these assets."
And others warned that Lehman would face questions about how it assigned assets to the new company.
"What's a bad asset, and what's a good asset, and what's in the middle?" said Jonathan Macy, a professor at the Yale Law School. "There have got to be judgment calls."

Macy also expressed concern about what options the new company might have to put the bad assets back onto Lehman's books.

Lehman's announcement came a day after the bank's shares plunged 45 percent after reports that its efforts to secure a strategic investment from Korea Development Bank had failed. Investors also feared that the U.S. government would not bail out Lehman as it has the mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and the investment bank Bear Stearns.

Lehman has been struggling amid growing losses on its commercial and residential real estate holdings. It has been shopping its prized investment management division, which includes Neuberger Berman. People with knowledge of the auction say Lehman has asked for final bids to be submitted by this weekend.

Lehman has been under heavy pressure since the collapse of Bear Stearns, as investors believe its heavy reliance on mortgage-related underwriting and trading could lead it to suffer the same fate that forced Bear Stearns into an emergency sale to JP Morgan Chase.

Lehman has steadfastly said that its balance sheet remained much stronger than Bear Stearns's ever was and that it continued to have access to an emergency lending facility put in place by the Federal Reserve after Bear Stearns's near collapse.

But the plunge Tuesday of Lehman shares fanned worries about the troubles plaguing the broader financial industry and sent the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index tumbling 3.4 percent. The decline more than wiped out the market's rally on Monday, when stocks surged after the weekend rescue of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

There has been a growing sense on Wall Street that Lehman may have to solve its problems on its own. Since March, Lehman has been in a fight for its life, as some investors, including prominent short-sellers betting against the bank's stock, questioned how the firm was valuing some of its assets. Lehman lost $2.8 billion in the second quarter and was forced to raise $6 billion in new capital. But investors were not placated, and the firm was compelled to explore more extreme measures.

Fuld has replaced the head of virtually every major division, including the firm's president and chief financial officer. He has also replaced the global head of fixed income - the division from which most of Lehman's problems have arisen - twice.

But with every measure taken, Lehman's stock price has fallen further.
Michael J. de la Merced and Louise Story contributed reporting. "

Link to Quote Source, Full Article and More on this Topic
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/10/business/worldbusiness/10iht-lehman.4.16050480.html

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New private equity fund enters market

"" " February 01, 2010
02:00PM

By Avihu Kadosh
Mark Bahiri, managing partner at the new Emerald Creek Capital Amidst harsh credit requirements and financial uncertainty, some smaller entities are trying to gain market share by offering instant liquidity for perplexed borrowers.

A good technique, according to Mark Bahiri, managing partner at the new Emerald Creek Capital, is to be quick when analyzing and finalizing loan deals. To that end, Bahiri and Mark Penna of asset management firm Neuberger Berman launched a private equity fund "to try and capitalize on the lack of liquidity in the marketplace," he said. "Banks just stopped lending and we're seeing a lot of opportunities out there."

Bahiri, who formerly worked at Madison Realty Capital, opened Emerald Creek Capital last October. The direct bridge lender has nine full time employees, and provides anywhere from $1 million to $20 million in loans with a 10 to 13 percent interest rate. Emerald secures it with a first lien position.

Since its inception, the firm has done three deals -- one in Long Island, one outside New Haven and one in Texas, plus a deal in the works in Atlanta, Ga.

With the Connecticut deal, Bahiri said his national firm, based at One Penn Plaza in Manhattan, fielded a call from a borrower who had more than 60 percent of the $2.8 million purchase price for a 50,000-square-foot shopping center, but was unable to come up with the other 40 percent.

The buyer was nine days away from losing his 10 percent deposit when Emerald put in the rest to make the deal happen.

"I got into the car the next day, saw the property, got an idea of the general value and got the deal approved within a week," Bahiri said. "

Source of Quote
http://therealdeal.com/newyork/articles/emerald-creek-capital-new-private-equity-fund-enters-market

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Crystal L. Cox
Richard Chimber Blog...

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Lehman Plans Neuberger Auction, Real Estate Spinoff

""" Sept. 10 (Bloomberg) -- Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., reporting the biggest loss in its 158-year history, said it will sell a majority stake in its asset-management unit, spin off commercial real-estate holdings and cut the dividend in an effort to shore up capital and regain investor confidence.

Lehman rose in New York trading after posting a $3.9 billion third-quarter loss on $5.6 billion of writedowns, worse than the $2.2 billion loss analysts had predicted.

The company said it's auctioning off about 55 percent of the asset- management group, including fund-manager Neuberger Berman, and didn't name potential bidders.

The real-estate spinoff is expected to be completed in the first fiscal quarter of 2009, according to a statement today.

``They are saying `we are fine now,' and that's buying them time to negotiate for that additional capital,'' Brad Hintz, an analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein in New York and former Lehman finance chief, said in a Bloomberg Television interview. ``They will need capital as part of the spinoff.''
Pressure on Lehman's Richard Fuld, the longest-serving chief executive officer on Wall Street, mounted yesterday after talks with Korea Development Bank ended, sending the shares tumbling 45 percent. Fuld is striving to convince investors that the fourth-largest U.S. securities firm will stem losses as housing prices decline. He and his management team also must keep clients and employees from leaving the company.
``This is an extraordinary time for our industry and one of the toughest periods in the firm's history,'' Fuld, 62, said in the statement.
Default Protection
Lehman gained 31 cents, or 4 percent, to $8.10 at 9:45 a.m. in New York Stock Exchange composite trading, as the cost to protect against a default by Lehman rose to a record. Credit- default swaps on Lehman jumped 75 basis points to 550 basis points as of 9:12 a.m., according to broker Phoenix Partners Group. That approached a previous peak of 580 basis points in March after the collapse and emergency sale of Bear Stearns Cos. to JPMorgan Chase & Co.

The global credit-market meltdown has led to more than $500 billion of writedowns and credit losses since it began a year ago, sending financial shares around the world swooning. Lehman, the worst performer on the 11-company Amex Securities Broker/Dealer Index this year, has lost 88 percent.

The New York-based securities firm moved its third-quarter earnings announcement up a week after a person familiar with the matter said yesterday that talks with state-owned Korea Development had ended, causing the stock to sink.

BlackRock Deal
Lehman is ``formally engaged with'' with BlackRock Inc., the biggest publicly traded U.S. fund manager, to sell about $4 billion of the investment bank's U.K. residential mortgage holdings, according to today's statement. Lehman said the transact
ion would help reduce the firm's stake in home mortgages by 47 percent to $13.2 billion.
Lehman had about $65 billion in mortgage-related assets at the end of the second quarter. Most of the portfolio, about $40 billion, was tied to commercial real estate.

The firm said it plans to spin off $25 billion to $30 billion of commercial real estate investments into a separate publicly traded company, to be called Real Estate Investments Global, in the first quarter in 2009. Lehman also said it will cut its dividend to 5 cents per common share from 68 cents.

``It's still this incrementalism that I think ultimately Wall Street's not going to be very satisfied with,'' Chuck Carlson, a portfolio manager at Horizon Investment Services in Hammond, Indiana, said in a Bloomberg Television interview. ``Lehman is trying to cling to the fact that they came come out of this independent and I'm not so sure that that's going to be the case.''

KKR, Bain
The Wall Street investment bank has been in talks with Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., Bain Capital LLC and other private-equity firms interested in buying its asset-management unit.
Fuld blundered by not getting out of mortgage securities fast enough after the U.S. housing market began to crumble last year, said Richard Bove, an analyst at Ladenburg Thalmann & Co. Fuld also moved too slowly to bring in a capital infusion from outside investors, Bove said.

``The opportunity has been there, but the lack of willingness to deal on Fuld's part has been huge,'' Bove said.

Once the biggest U.S. underwriter of mortgage-backed securities, Lehman was stuck with the assets after two Bear Stearns hedge funds that invested in the instruments collapsed in July 2007, causing the market to freeze.

Job Cuts
The ensuing credit contraction ultimately led to the takeover of Bear Stearns, once the fifth-biggest U.S. securities firm, by JPMorgan for $10 a share in a deal backed by the U.S. Federal Reserve. Banks and brokerages, trying to reduce costs as revenue dried up, have cut more than 110,000 jobs.

Standard & Poor's said yesterday it may lower its A1 long- term rating on Lehman because the ``precipitous decline'' in the share price creates uncertainty about the firm's ability to raise additional capital. S&P said Lehman's liquidity is ``sound,'' noting the firm has the ability to borrow from the Federal Reserve.

Bear Stearns, which was the fifth-largest U.S. securities firm, was forced to sell itself or face bankruptcy as clients pulled their funds and other firms refused to trade with it. Bear Stearns was the largest underwriter of mortgage-backed assets for three years before 2007, when Lehman displaced it in the rankings.

The Fed agreed to take on $32 billion of mortgage assets from Bear Stearns's books to enable the sale of the firm to JPMorgan.

CEO Casualties
The credit crisis has claimed the jobs of at least 10 CEOs so far, including James ``Jimmy'' Cayne, who had led Bear Stearns since 1983 and Charles O. ``Chuck'' Prince, Citigroup Inc.'s CEO since 2003.

Founded in 1850 by three Jewish immigrants from Germany, Lehman has managed to avert previous potential disasters and is now among the handful of U.S. financial firms that have endured for more than a century.

Lehman has been on the verge of collapse at least four times: in 1929, when the stock market crashed; in 1973, when the firm lost $6.7 million betting on interest rates; in 1984, when internal dissension led to a takeover by American Express Co.; and in 1994, when newly independent Lehman faced a capital shortage.

Lehman's second-quarter loss of $2.8 billion was its first as a publicly traded company.
Management Shuffle

``I hope Lehman doesn't succumb this time either because we're running out of investment banks,'' said Sean Egan, president of Egan-Jones Ratings Co. ``And it takes 100 years to create a good one.''

Fuld, who joined Lehman in 1969, attempted to shore up the firm's finances last quarter by raising $14 billion of capital, selling $147 billion of assets, increasing cash holdings and reducing its reliance on short-term funding to create a buffer against a possible bank run. He replaced his second-in-command, Joseph Gregory, with Bart McDade, a 49-year-old known within the firm for his cautious approach to risk taking. """

Source and Full Article
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&refer=home&sid=aqetYDRNUTMs

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Industry Whistleblower

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Let's Take another Look at Why Richard Chimberg of CL-Media Relations wants my post with Neuberger Berman information changed.

Richard Chimberg of CL-Media Relations - What is Neuberger Berman hiding?

I mean the changes that Richard Chimberg
of CL-Media Relations wanted me to make to this post below do not seem like that big of a difference to me...

http://www.industrywhistleblower.com/2010/02/bain-capital-llc-and-hellman-friedman.html

If you look at the Post and the Source and what Richard Chimberg - CL-Media Relations, PR Media Relations for Neuberger Berman wants changed, you have to ask yourself what is the big difference between May and the Beginning of the Year.

I mean their Big Fancy Deal Closed when it closed right, and surely they have proof of that should the SEC or the Tax Man come Knocking Right?

And the Article I linked to Said, "The transaction is expected to be completed by early 2009." - so basically if this was written in Oct. of 2008 and said something was "expected" doesn't that mean that it may or may not close at that time.. So why the urgency, when the source had been Out THERE for over a year ?

Richard Chimberg of CL-Media Relations - in his last plea to me said

"Please take a look at the date of that posting from the CFO.com site. Oct. 6, 2008, which was before the management buyout of Neuberger Berman. Thanks. Best, Rich "

I just don't understand the big difference... I GUESS it is a Big Deal to Somebody because that POST was hit by Lehman Brothers, Warner Brothers, Rubenstein and Associates, emailed to Stock Brokers and Holding Companies, hit and studied by Proskauer Rose LLP, and lit up on Blackberry and Verizon, it was a bit of a frenzy and I just don't get it when it was on the Web for 15 Months before I linked to it in my research connecting the dots on Proskaur Rose , Which was the Research that I was doing.

How can it NOW be such a Big Deal and why do they want that changed, and on whose authority of fact?

I mean when did the Deal Really Close and Who really Cares? For me it was about the things that Proskuar Rose is involved in and connecting Clients and information.

I know nothing about merger's and acquisitions, nothing about Randy Whitestone, the Lehman Brothers, Bain Capital LLC, Hellman and Friedmand LLC, or Neuberger Berman, I was simply researching and posting. I know nothing about Private equity business, venture capital, merchant banking, or investment funds... I own no stocks...

So in looking at the emails that Richard Chimberg of CL-Media Relations sent to me and going off the "Fact Change" he requested I PROMPTLY make, and the supposed proof he provide - I can only think that there is something about this deal that Neuberger Berman does not want investors, bankers.. or somebody to know - I just can't figure out what that is....

What is the Difference between Early in the Year in May.. on say 158 Billion in Assets.... or something like that.. could it be a Tax Consequence, a Holding Period of Portfolios, some sort of Currency Trading or something that would put money in the wrong hands.. well I don't know.. but Rich Chimberg of CL-Media Relations sure has peeked my interest... and well my Stat Counter is on Fire...

So it must be a pretty big deal to somebody.. I just don't know why... or Who
Do YOU ? Email me at Crystal@CrystalCox.com
Richard Chimberg,CL-Media Relations
Crystal Cox

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the infamous Post that Richard Chimberg Claims is Not Accurate but it is NOT my WORDS..

My Post from Link Below
http://www.industrywhistleblower.com/2010/02/
bain-capital-llc-and-hellman-friedman.html

"Bain Capital LLC and Hellman & Friedman LLC to buy Neuberger Berman Inc. from Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. for $2.15 billion

"Boston-based private equity firm Bain and San Francisco based private equity firm Hellman & Friedman agreed to acquire equal stakes in investment advisory and asset management firm Neuberger Berman from New York City-based Lehman. Also, current portfolio managers, management team, and senior professionals will gain a significant stake in the company, and remain in their positions.

The transaction includes all capabilities of Neuberger, which is primarily equities products and services, mutual funds, and a strong emphasis on high net worth and institutional clients.

The deal also includes Lehman Brothers Asset Management, with its fixed income, commodities, and quantitative portfolio management capabilities, and Lehman's private funds investment group. The deal doesn't include Lehman's merchant-banking, real-estate, or venture-capital direct private-equity businesses. The transaction is expected to be completed by early 2009.

Seller financial advisor: Barclays Capital
Bidder financial advisor: Citigroup
Seller legal advisor: Weil Gotshal & Manges; Willkie Farr & Gallagher
Bidder legal advisor: Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton; Proskauer Rose; Ropes & Gray "

Source of Post
http://www.cfo.com/article.cfm/12372026?f=msdynamics "

Posted By Crystal L. Cox
Industry Whistleblower

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Neuberger Berman PR - Richard Chimberg of CL-Media Relations

Richard Chimberg of CL-Media Relations Sent me an Email Today - I want to Share it with you folks to Help you Understand the Online PR World of 2010.

A Good PR guy or Media Relations Company in 2010, in My Opinion, Should have a firm grasp of the playing field, of modern media and really understand the new journalist and online news source is in a Big Part Bloggers.

A Modern Day, So Called PR Firm such as CL-Media Relations - or a PR Guy like Richard Chimberg SHOULD actually "Google" the person, the "Blogger", the "Industry Whistleblower" they are emailing BEFORE they email them to see what all they are doing online and if this can in anyway hurt the Company, the Client they are working for.

A Modern Day Media Relations Company such as CL-Media Relations SHOULD also scour the site they found the information on BEFORE they Email the Blog Owner or the Blog Author to see if there might just be a few things they may need to know about this Investigative Blogger, Industry Whistleblower, Search Engine Reputation Manager .. Before they just start a Yapping and a Yammering. And trying to Pull a Bluff, a Subtle Threat and well ya know ruffle their feathers. .. ya know what I mean ?

A PR - Media Relation Company such as CL-Media Relations who boastingly says they "specialize in strategic media relations services" May want to get a refresher course on how this all really works in 2010. BEFORE they Reach Out and make Subtle Threats, Strong requests for immediate action and plea-full bantering.

Well this is what Richard Chimberg of CL-Media Relations
has engaged me "Crystal L. Cox" in today.

"" Hello, Crystal. My name is Rich Chimberg and our firm, CL-Media Relations , is Neuberger Berman's PR agency. The item that appeared Feb. 1, 2010 on http://www.industrywhistleblower.com/ , Bain Capital LLC and Hellman & Friedman LLC to buy Neuberger Berman Inc. from Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. for $2.15 billion, is factually wrong.

http://www.industrywhistleblower.com/2010/02/bain-capital-llc-and-hellman-friedman.html

Neuberger Berman was acquired in a management buyout announced in Dec. 2008 and completed in May 2009 (attached is a Neuberger Berman press releasedated May 4, 2009 announcing the completion of the transaction).

Would appreciate a prompt update on the website with the correctinformation. I have copied Randy Whitestone at Neuberger Berman, and my business partner, Sarah Lazarus, on this email. Thanks very much. Best, Rich "

Crystal L. Cox Says:

Ok First of All, I was very open to changing the information, however Richard Chimberg 's response, the things he said and the way he said them, well I just felt that there was more to it.

I mean Come on a Media Relations Company asking me to Change Facts, I mean I don't know if they are facts, I did not talk to the Companies involved. I QUOTED in exact wording what another news source said, and it was a Post from October 6th 2008.

I am suppose to take the word of a Company hired to promote another Company and my FACT base is to be an official looking PDF from some guy named Randy Whitestone whom I had never heard of until I got that email from Richard Chimberg of CL-Media Relations.

I was simply Researching Proskauer Rose in my Writings of the Trillion Dollar Iviewit Stolen Patent Case. And that post was a "Connecting the Dots" per say on Proskauer Rose and I got it from another source in direct quote and at the bottom of the post I wrote "Source of POST" and I linked to the Source of the Post. The Post was in quotes.

So because my Internet Marketing puts my information out in front and because Richard Chimberg must have google alerts on Neuberger Berman he saw my Post and Wham hit me with a Request.

Well I would like to Say A+ for Promptness, however .. hmmmm.. what about the previous 15 Months this apparent "Non-Factual Information" was out there for all to see. How did Super Duper PR Guy Rich Chimberg of CL-Media Relations miss that and seem to be unable to do anything about it. Richard Chimberg of CL-Media Relations did not even know it existed.

Does Richard Chimberg of CL-Media Relations not offer Search Engine Monitoring Services, and actively look for this stuff .. I mean does Richard Chimberg of CL-Media Relations actually make a living at simply check his email for google alerts .. and emailing bloggers to change information based on What he say is Fact and Sending copies of those emails to people the blogger has never even heard of ????

How did Rich Chimberg of CL-Media Relations miss that it was a Direct Quote and Flat OUT miss the Link to that Source... ?? And why, subtly threaten me with sent copies to people I had never heard of... what is that about Really?

I emailed Richard Chimberg of CL-Media Relations back and I Said this..

" Thanks for the Email.. This is an Exact Quote from another site..
and a Link to the Source, Have you Asked the Source Post to Be Dropped?

What I am Researching and Writing on, that is of interest here is Proskauer...

I will consider Dropping or changing the post after I review what you sent..

Thanks.."

Next Super Duper PR Guy Richard Chimberg of CL-Media Relations Emailed me Back and Said this Never To Be Forgotten Quote, " Appreciate the reply. If the information you used comes from another site, we’d be happy to contact that source with the facts. Can you let us know the source? Thanks. Best, Rich"

Ok ... So ... Richard Chimberg of CL-Media Relations on his website brags about specialized attention, experience and all he can bring to the table to his clients yet he Emails Gibberish Like this out to Bloggers. IF THE INFORMATION YOU USED COMES FROM ANOTHER SOURCE ... Can you Let us Know the Source?

ARE you kidding me.. he can't read ... how "Specialized Attention" is that ? Richard Chimberg of CL-Media Relations, Super Duper PR Guy asked me for the Source instead of Seeing the SOURCE on the POST before he SENT his Special Request to ME.

And instead of FIRST contacting that Source to have them change the FACTS before emailing me, he asks me to hold his hand and point out the Source that was on the POST the FIRST time he Read it. Gee I really hope nobody is Paying this Guy for this kind of Archaic, Ineffective PR Solutions.

And Still Rich Chimberg still wants my Post Information Changed.

Well if I did that I can't link to the source anymore Right and then the Point of my POST which was the " Proskauer Rose LLP " Connection, well that would be Mute wouldn't it?

It would then become a Post on a Company that I had never heard of and was not involved in researching... And how condescending to say "IF" it came from another source, as if to scare or intimidate me.. instead of just reading the source..

Ok So I Email Richard Chimberg of CL-Media Relations back and I sass him a bit... I Say...

" NO Offense to YOU.. however how good are you at PR if you did not see the Quotes and the Link to the Source.. http://www.industrywhistleblower.com/2010/02/bain-capital-llc-and-hellman-friedman.html Hope your Paid Well..

In my Opinion whatever Neuberger Berman 's PR agency is Paying you is Not Enough, the Source has been there for about 4 years.. and you did not catch it, then you read my EXACT quote and VERY Bold Link to the SOURCE and email me to remove it...

You just thought I made This Stuff up?

you Said "If the information you used comes from another site"Can't you read, research, PR Guy???? Hmmmm...Sounds like Neuberger Berman 's PR agency NEEDS a New PR Agency, and well now I have another Story to Tell..."

ok so I blathered a bit and mis-spoke a bit.. I meant that Neuberger Berman was paying Richard Chimberg of CL-Media Relations too much.. and well it was 15 months and not 4 years.. ok I got ahead of myself but still good points, I thought, of course I made them.. (that was funny.. you may have forgot to laugh..) Ok Anyway .. Richard Chimberg of CL-Media Relations got my email and he said. .. Yeah its a He Said - She Said sort of a deal..

"" Crystal — checked the CFO.com site, which I believe is the source of your news item on Neuberger Berman. The date of that posting, http://www.cfo.com/article.cfm/12372026?f=msdynamics , was Oct. 6, 2008. As I wrote in the previous email the management buyout of Neuberger Berman was approved in Dec 2008, and completed in May 2009. Thanks. Best, Rich ""

Talk about Dense, no offense seriously.. but Come on now he says "which I believe" - I LED HIM TO THE WATER... all he had to do was drink... So then he tells me the Date of the Buyout, the Date of the Post and yada - yada ... I can't CHANGE a QUOTE... Fix the SOURCE.. instead.. he Keeps Yammering the Facts according to Richard Chimberg of CL-Media Relations as if I am going to ALTER the quote and then link to the source.. .or what Remove the post..

I mean I did not make it up.. So a Good PR guy first of all would have FOUND the "Non-Factual Information" in the SOURCE post say 15 MONTHS ago and then well, if, GEE he just missed it and only found it because of my Super Duper Bloggin'... well then the Thing To Do would be FIX the source... not me.. FIRST...

And Richard Chimberg of CL-Media Relations makes one last plea and says, "Please take a look at the date of that posting from the CFO.com site. Oct. 6, 2008, which was before the management buyout of Neuberger Berman. Thanks. Best, Rich " What does this mean, it DOES not change the information on the Source ....

I had never heard of Randy Whitestone or Really even new of Neuberger Berman,

However a Subtle threat of sending him a Copy of his Email to me, well that made me curious on just who Randy Whitestone and Neuberger Berman are so I have a New Investigative Journalist - Industry Whistleblower BLOG on Randall Whitestone and Neuberger Berman to Post My Investigative Research On.

I am sure Glad that Rich Chimberg of CL Media Relations is Not My PR Guy.

Below is Some More Information on Richard Chimberg and CL-Media Relations, DIRECTLY Quoted from the Link in the Source Beneath, pay Close attention, it is hard to understand, for it says Source of Post and then there is the link right below...


"" About Us

CL-Media Relations, LLC, based in Concord, Massachusetts, was founded in 2006 by merging the media relations practices of Richard Chimberg and Sarah Lazarus.

We specialize in strategic media relations services, with a focus on the global financial services industry. CL-Media Relations is a boutique consultancy, so every client gets personalized attention from experienced and knowledgeable professionals.

We add value from the start, because we know the business world, and specifically your business. And, since we have substantial journalism and public relations backgrounds, we also understand what makes a good story and how to tell it to the media.""

Below is the SOURCE of the ABOVE Quote
http://www.cl-media.com/about.html


Here is another Quote, this is a Quote About Richard Chimberg of CL-Media Relations


""Rich is a principal and co-founder of CL-Media Relations, LLC, established in 2006. CL-Media advises financial companies on their internal and external communications and positioning in the media.

Rich has 25 years of experience in PR and financial journalism.

Prior to his PR career, he reported on the investment management business, beginning in 1983, at Money Management Letter.

In 1988 he founded and edited Investment Management Weekly, a newsletter, and, in 1994, Return on Investment (ROI), a glossy magazine covering the business of money management. Rich later reported for Bloomberg News, and, in 2000, established InvestorForce.com’s Investor News Service, the first real-time online news service covering the investment management business.""

Source of the ABOVE quoted POST on
http://www.cl-media.com/bio_richard.html

If I was a Super Duper PR Guy, I would Buy my Own Dotcom and Encourage My Clients to do so as Well, Come on it is 2010 and saying please and thank you and subtle threatening an email copy sent to people the blogger does not even know well... this is hmmm NOT good, and definately NOT EFFECTIVE....

I am Not sure how long it has been that Richard Chimberg of CL-Media Relations has been the PR Media Relations for Neuberger Berman, however if it has at least been... oh .. say a year ago or more.. shouldn't Richard Chimberg of CL-Media Relations have noticed the Bad Information Long ago ?

And if NOT, Well then.. Welcome to 2010 ... it may be time For Richard Chimberg of CL-Media Relations to Retire and Hang up the Ol' "Back in the Day" PR Hat.

We are NOT 25 years ago... the Internet is faster then the Speed of Light.. Per Say and So your 2010 PR Person... Well they had better be Johnny on the Spot and very - VERY good at what they do or say Good Bye to your Online Reputation SHOULD they ... ya Know Step in a Pile of BLOGGER "Scat" and Not know what to "Doo".


It's NOT Personal .... It's Just Business...
Richard Chimberg YOUR FIRED !!!


Consider this Post a Wake Call to ALL PR Companies -
It is 2010 and EVERYTHING is NEW.. Different..
the Rules of the Game HAVE Changed and I mean Bigtime..
YOU had Better KNOW what your Doing... or GET out of the Business.
Consider this POST a FREE Online Marketing,
Media Relations and PR Mini-Seminar....

POSTED by Crystal L. Cox
Investigative Journalist
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