Documents that disappear, as noted by EPJ's own Bob English, then resurface with deviations from the normal "received stamp," pages that look to include copy with a different type and a new scribbling on a document that was specifically identified earlier by English. English summarizes:
The fact that the stamp says "REGISTRATIONS BRANCH" is also a deviation from the filing stamp that broker filings usually receive. Here is MF Global Inc.'s 2010 report, which contains the typical diamond shaped filing stamp (truncated at the top):
Finally, we hinted at the top that there are a few curious annotations in the replacement MF Global Inc. filing. Compared to the original filing, the replacement filing has text that is slightly smaller and more blurred. Also, the right margin is wider, which all suggests it is a photocopy. Thus, we are left to wonder whose hands this copy passed through before being scanned, and just who was interested in the first paragraph of the financial notes, which specifically addresses the definitions of the various MF Global entities:
And further, why would this person have scribbled below the sentence that specifically addresses the European repo-to-maturity trades that were transacted with an affiliate of the broker unit?
Here is the original:
Interestingly, we included only two excerpts from the MF Global Inc. financial notes in our November 9 article, and the sentence above the handwritten scribble constitutes one, the other being this:
These annotations, combined with the three month delay in scanning, along with the atypical filing stamp all suggest that the 2011 MF Global Inc. report has been receiving special attention at the SEC. Yet, the public record reveals very little of this file tampering, and would likely have gone unnoticed had MF Global not been so high profile. Indeed, the deleted filings of JP Morgan Securities, Goldman Sachs & Co., Banc of America and Newedge USA have gone unnoticed for years.
The full report by English is here.
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