JP Morgan Managed to Get Its MF Global Money Before Bankruptcy

Those farmers, traders, and other assorted customers of busted trading firm MF Global probably won't like hearing the news that JP Morgan got money it was owed, on the day before it filed for bankruptcy, The New York Times reports. And even worse in the hunt for the missing $1 billion in customer funds after the collapse of former New Jersey governor and Goldman Sachs CEO Jon Corzine's trading firm, The Times reports that the  "roughly $200 million that JPMorgan Chase received is said to be entirely customer money." There were other transfers to other, unspecified trading partners on October 28, the day before MF Global filed its bankruptcy papers, as well, the paper reports. Meanwhile, customers have only gotten back a third of their money and are short roughly $1.2 billion. For its part, JP Morgan apparently questioned the source of the money itself, asking for assurances that it wasn't coming from customers (which it didn't get).