Report: MF Global customers getting offers for their claims

The New York Times reports investment firms are jockeying to buy claims off thousands of MF Global customers, which includes many Minnesota farmers. Most of those offers are for 90 percent of face value. It could spell a big change in fortune for Minnesota's farmers and agricultural business owners, many of whom had large accounts on the books with the commodities firm when it collapsed.

Author:
BMTN Staff
Updated:
Mar 8, 2018
Original:
Mar 13, 2012

The New York Times reports investment firms are jockeying to buy claims off thousands of MF Global customers, which includes many Minnesota farmers. Most of those offers are for 90 percent of face value. It could spell a big change in fortune for Minnesota's farmers and agricultural business owners, many of whom had large accounts on the books with the commodities firm when it collapsed.

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Democratic Sen. Amy Klobuchar has voted to give the Senate Agriculture Committee the authority to subpoena the former top executive to testify. Minnesota farmers and agriculture businesses saw critical financial accounts frozen and now worry they may be out serious cash following the collapse of the commodities trading firm. Klobuchar says those responsible should be held accountable.

U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar and 16 other senators have mailed a letter to the U.S. attorney general urging an investigation into and possibly the criminal prosecution of MF Global executives, who may have made illegal transactions using customer funds. Many of Minnesota's farmers and agricultural businesses have been missing money since the commodities trader collapsed.

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