While too many on both sides of the aisle fell for seductive appeals to cash in the so-called "peace dividend, " John Kerry earned his rating as the most liberal member of the U. S. Senate in no small measure by advocating far deeper cuts in the armed forces and intelligence community.
Given the substantial limitations and restrictions on the ability of plaintiffs to actually demand and receive the dividend and capital gains income that BLMIS reported they had earned, the court concludes that plaintiffs did not and could not constructively receive the money that plaintiffs had reported as income on their GIT returns.