Vultures feed when economies are turned into rotting carcasses

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/poverty-matters/2011/nov/16/vultures-feed-economies-rotting-carcasses

If God doesn't give a rat's arse about "The Vulture", and what he does for a living, and what he's done to Africa, why should I?

The thought struck me while sitting here, coffee getting cold, in my old Toyota, trying to look invisible, staked out in front of 300 De Kalb Avenue, in Brooklyn, New York. It's just after dawn and I'm hoping that Peter Grossman, a Wall Street star, will pop out of his posh brownstone for a jog or a cup of coffee. Then I can jump him. He's on the lookout for me because I'd already jumped his acquaintance, Goldfinger, the man who's making Grossman stunningly rich.

Grossman's riches, nearly $100m for his firm, FG Management, come from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. I was just there in Congo, two days before this stakeout, at a cholera quarantine centre in the capital, Kinshasa.

Besides lots of cholera, Congo has lots of cobalt. Grossman has, through a crazy legal loophole in British law, waylaid a payment of $80m to the African government for a shipment of cobalt from a government-owned mine.

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1. speaking of vultures...

i am looking for an accounting job in the bay area of california. i see many ads for jobs with wealth management and real estate firms. clearly some people are benefiting from the depression.

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2. it's the bay area -- who doesn't want to live there? it's one of the draw backs. nt