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Frontline
Season 30, Episode 12
Episode Title: Cell Tower Deaths / Six Billion Dollar Bet
Air Date: 2012-05-22
Overview:
Learn about the hidden cost of better and faster cell phone service, and about unreliable medical evidence in several child death cases. Six Billion Dollar Bet: Jon Corzine, former head of Goldman Sachs and political power broker, took over MF Global in the spring of 2010 and lost a massive bet on European debt, with more than a billion dollars of customer funds missing. FRONTLINE investigates how Corzineβs traders went around MF Globalβs risk officers and how he swayed regulators in Washington to allow risky practices to continue.
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