MF Global: The Big Fix Was In; How Corzine Threw a Mid-Level Operations Assistant Under the Bus

``In fact, very shortly after the first testimony where Edith O'Brien was pinned, word was, as Congressman Neugebauer stated in the recent hearing,  that she "disagreed" with Mr. Corzine's claim in December that she provided assurance that a $200 million transfer to J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. three days before the bankruptcy-protection filing.  (In fact, we now know that O'Brien refused to put her signature to such a statement of assurance after MF Global legal council, Lauri Ferber, asked her to sign it.)''