They had learned that Jenkins hired a two-bit gumshoe named Thomas ("Papa Bear") Miller--a New Orleans operative with a long, sometimes violent criminal record.

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Unfortunately for Miller, who bought stock in Bear Stearns just before its collapse, he has 3.5% of his assets in Freddie Mac, which is off a startling 76%.

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Miller recently took bad swings at Bear Stearns and Yahoo!

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Canadian accounts go back a year earlier, to 1858, when a businessman named James Miller Williams decided to dig a well for drinking water outside the town of Bear Creek, Ontario.

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