Rogue UBS Trader Used Facebook To Vent

Rogue UBS trade Kweku Adoboli used Facebook to talk about his alleged crimes with the market rise and falls.

If you weren’t one of UBS trader Kweku Adoboli’s 420 friends on Facebook, you would probably have no clue who he was. Until today.

That’s when UBS revealed that the 31-year old Londoner bilked $2 billion from the the Swiss bank’s coffers, and the public learned that the trader posted about his rogue activities on Facebook for all to see.

As of 10 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time, Adoboli’s page had been deleted from Facebook, but not before news outlets, such as the Financial Times, descended into his profile to find out all about the huckster, from his love of Al Jazeera to MC Xander.

His final Facebook post on September 6 says it all:

Need a Miracle.

But

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