Why Did MF Global Declare Bankruptcy At 2 AM Sunday Morning?

The trustee seeking to pay MF Global creditors money they were owed when the derivatives brokerage firm failed in a ball of flames Halloween 2011, is requesting court approval to make the final payments, capping a wild ordeal. Payments to MF Global customers and creditors The payment to creditors would mark the return of assets to both MF Global customers and creditors that surrounded a case where, to this day, the real story has yet to be told in any major publication. After MF Global customer money was discovered suspiciously missing over Halloween weekend in 2011, the firm declared bankruptcy even though it apparently…