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"Its nice to see that giant squids and pirates have put their differences behind them and are now working on a common goal to (expletive deleted) society" (Best comment). Somali Pirates Disclose They Are A Subsidiary Of Goldman Sachs Tyler Durden's picture Submitted by Tyler Durden on 04/26/2010 12:54 -0500 * Goldman Sachs * Lloyd Blankfein Andy Borowitz discloses what we all thought was 95% impossible, yet 5%* perfectly resonable, and in fact, expected and now welcomed. From the Borowitz Report. NORFOLK, VIRGINIA (The Borowitz Report) - Eleven indicted Somali pirates dropped a bombshell in a U.S. court today, revealing that their entire piracy operation is a subsidiary of banking giant Goldman Sachs. There was an audible gasp in court when the leader of the pirates announced, "We are doing *******'s work. We work for Lloyd Blankfein." The pirate, who said he earned a bonus of $48 million in dubloons last year, elaborated on the nature of the Somalis' work for Goldman, explaining that the pirates forcibly attacked ships that Goldman had already shorted. "We were functioning as investment bankers, only every day was casual Friday," the pirate said. The pirate acknowledged that they merged their operations with Goldman in late 2008 to take advantage of the more relaxed regulations governing bankers as opposed to pirates, "plus to get our share of the bailout money." In the aftermath of the shocking revelations, government prosecutors were scrambling to see if they still had a case against the Somali pirates, who would now be treated as bankers in the eyes of the law. "There are lots of laws that could bring these guys down if they were, in fact, pirates," one government source said. "But if they're bankers, our hands are tied."