Did you know that a man described as "a former top aide" of George Soros took a guilty plea on federal charges of conspiring to defraud investors and faces sentencing next week? I didn't. Now, having a former top associate cop a plea on charges could just happen to a bigtime financial operator out of the blue, I suppose. But George Soros himself was convicted of insider trading and fined 2.2 million euros in France, a conviction upheld when he appealed. Now he is seeking to leave behind that nation-state and is appealing to an EU court. (I bet they let him skate. These transnational institutions know how to take care of the elites.)  James Marquez was no longer associated with Soros when he did the crime, to be sure. He co-founded the Bayou hedge funds in Stamford, CT, where he got caught. His attorney is battling the DA now over certain facts of the case prior to sentencing. The only news source that I see covering this affair is the Journal-Record, a local paper in...(Read Full Post)