In related news, Straus-Kahn has said in a statement Friday night “I deny in the strongest possible terms the allegations which I now face.” [NYP]

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The call took place at the end of September 2008, in the midst of the financial meltdown, when Rajaratnam appeared to be struggling. “I’m long 25 and I’m taking the pain,” he said, referring to his stake in AMD stake. “But I’m, you know, I’m a warrior. They can’t kill me, they can’t kill me. October’s my month.” [NYP]

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According to the security guard suing James Simons’ hedge fund, he and his team were “instructed to shred confidential documents and walk about the firm’s floors “so that Renaissance employees would feel more secure.” [NYP via BI]

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Which is why the document, last signed November 1, 2007, names Bernie Madoff as a co-executor of his late son’s a estate, a role Bernie’s been unable to fulfill given his current situation. [NYP]

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For trader Dennis Herrera, left, when he gazes at himself in the mirror it’s “epitome of Wall Street.” His brother Nelson, center, and broheim Scott Levine, right, would probably concur but what do we think? First glance. First thought. Go.

Prep, Prep, Hooray! [NYP]

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$$$ Tiger In The City [NYP]

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$$$ BofA, Ken Lewis Deny Fraud Charges [WSJ]

$$$ Larry Summers, lookin’ good [Rortybomb]

$$$ Goldman Sachs Is About To Go Nuclear [NYP]

$$$ Paulson Makes New Housing Bet [CNBC]

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$$$ Ex-Lehman Brothers Trader Eyes Six Figures For Fuld Painting [NYP]

$$$ ‘Iron Man’ Bets Loom as CFTC Staff Backs Film Futures [BW]

$$$ Roubini’s bad call: a Brazilian coup d’etat [FT]

$$$ SEC proposes tracking large traders’ moves [WaPo]

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$$$ Hedge fund manager confesses insider trading to priest? [Reuters]

$$$ Las Vegas Foreclosure Tours By Private Jet [Luxist]

$$$ Hollywood Unites to Block Trading on Movie Box-Office Performance [Media Decoder via Heidi Moore]

$$$ Madoff Pad’s Dreamy Views [NYP]

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$$$ Wine trader has sense of opportunity [NYP]

$$$ New York Fed Warehousing Junk Loans On Its Books: Examiner’s Report [HuffPo]

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