Ray Dalio isn't making friends in Stamford, Conn., says The New York Post, reporting that the Bridgewater founder ticked off locals with the surprise demolition of a boatyard to make way for the massive hedge fund's new waterfront headquarters.

Bill Ackman’s position in JCPenney has cost his hedge fund, Pershing Square, $900 million this year as shares fell 18 percent.

The government is investigating possible mortgage fraud at Residential Capital, the mortgage-lending unit of government-owned Ally Financial, Reuters reports. The Securities and Exchange Commission disclosed in court filings Monday that it had issued a formal order of investigation in February to probe ResCap's mortgage-bundling and underwriting practices. Ally, which is 74 percent-owned by the Treasury after a series of bailouts during the financial crisis, placed ResCap into bankruptcy proceedings in an effort to shed bad assets ahead of a potential IPO.

Barclays may face a criminal investigation into whether it properly disclosed details of a deal to raise capital with Qatar sovereign wealth funds during the financial crisis.

Morgan Stanley and Citigroup will allow more time for the appraisal of their joint-venture brokerage, Morgan Stanley Smith Barney. Investment bank Perella Weinberg was set to put a value on the JV this week, but will delay the decision until Sept. 10.

Prosecutors revised the indictment of Level Global Investors co-founder Anthony Chiasson and ex-Diamondback Capital Management portfolio manager Todd Newman, adding new counts of securities fraud pertaining to alleged insider trading in Nvidia Corp.

The Occupy movement isn't over "until the last person calls it quits and goes home, wherever home is," an organizer tells Bloomberg as the movement's Sept. 17 day of action approaches. This is proving to be the case in Hong Kong, where 10 or so protesters continue to hold out in HSBC headquarters.

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Blow back: Jamie Dimon went on Meet the Press and said JPMorgan was "dead wrong" to dismiss early stories of the massive position in credit derivatives accumulated by the bank's chief investment office and the trader nicknamed the London whale. “We got very defensive, and people started justifying everything we did,” Dimon said.

Ina Drew, the JPMorgan executive who loves crisis, is expected to resign today after the bank lost more than $2 billion on a credit derivatives trade she oversaw. Achilles Macris, the executive who oversaw the London-based operation that placed the trades, and trader Javier Marin-Artajo, are also on their way out, the Wall Street Journal reports.

It appears the chief investment office's entire London operation could be dismissed.

Cover up: Who knows what would have happened if Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson had come clean about his resume from the start—in the end it was Mr. Thompson's lie about how the gratuitous degree in computer science first appeared that led to the executive's resignation.

Yahoo named Ross B. Levinsohn—its head of global media and the former News Corp. exec who presided over that company's $580 million takeover of MySpace—as interim CEO.

Meanwhile, Third Point Capital, which led the call for Mr. Thompson's resignation, will end its proxy fight after Yahoo agreed to give the hedge fund three seats on its board of directors, including one to Third Point founder Dan Loeb.

Love letter:  Noster Capital, a London-based hedge fund that owns a small stake in Chesapeake Energy, is calling on CEO Aubrey McClendon to step down. Noster cited more than $1 billion in personal loans secured by Mr. McCLendon's stake in Chesapeake wells, the recent disclosure of off-balance sheet liabilities and...the catering in a letter signed by founder Pedro de Noronha.

Activist investor Carl Icahn, meanwhile, is expected to disclose that he has taken a large stake in Chesapeake.

Filing looms: The board of directors for Residential Capital, the mortgage unit at Ally Financial, is on the verge of filing Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Fortress Investment Group is expected to bid $2.4 billion for the majority of ResCap's assets when the long awaited filing goes through, while the Times lists hedge fund Elliot Management as among the Ally investors that oppose an asset sale.

Filing looms, too: LightSquared executives spent the weekend prepping for bankruptcy court, after negotiations with lenders stalled. LightSquared, the wireless venture backed by Phil Falcone's Harbinger Capital, has until 5 p.m. today to reach an agreement with lenders.

Greek re-vote: Alexis Tsipras, the Syriza party leader who would tear up the rescue plan struck with the European Union, is poised to finish first in the next round of Greek elections, raising the specter of a messy eurozone divorce.

Sales call: Avon is considering a $10.7 billion takeover offer from rival Coty, after rebuffing previous advances.

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Road show: Mark Zuckerberg slipped into the midtown Sheraton through a side door to address investors yesterday, and left in the company of "a dozen beefy security guards," the Journal reports, as Facebook kicked off its IPO road show. The presentation opened with a 30-minute video presentation available here. Following a delay while Facebook's 27-year-old CEO was apparently having a hard time finding his way back from the bathroom, Zuck, Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg and Chief Financial Officer David Ebersman fielded questions on the company's strategies for China, mobile revenues and its recent $1 billion Instagram acquisition. With excitement building, analysts have been quick to offer opinions on Facebook, with Sterne Agee slapping a buy on the company and Wedbush Securities assigning a $44 price target to the stock.

So sorry: Yahoo! CEO Scott Thompson apologized to employees for lying on his ... wait, no, for the distraction caused by the "disclosure of my academic credentials." You can find the whole letter (addressed "Yahoos:") over at Dealbook. Third Point Capital's Dan Loeb has been calling for Mr. Thompson to step down since last week, when the hedge fund manager asserted that the executive lied on his resume.

Trader exodus: Nearly two dozen of Wall Street's most profitable credit traders have defected from banks in the past 13 months, Bloomberg reports, as lenders cut bonuses and regulators seek to limit the types of trading banks can engage in.

Chopping red tape: Bank of America data chief John Bottega has a fourth-degree black belt in Okinawa karate, so watch what you say about consolidating bank data, a cause Bottega championed in a previous position at the New York Fed.

Fashion finance: Barney's New York will escape bankruptcy after swapping about $540 million in debt for equity with Richard C. Perry's Perry Capital and Ron Burkle's Yucaipa Companies. The fashion retailer, which filed Chapter 11 in 1996, was acquired by Istithmar, the Dubai-based private-equity firm, for $942 million in 2007. Mr. Perry is known for his "sharp style," and shop's at Barney's, according to Dealbook. No word on Mr. Burkle's fashion sense.

Bailout bonus: The Government Accountability Office said the U.S. could turn a $15.1 billion profit on its bailout of AIG, and Forbes breaks down some of the math. The government had $46.3 billion outstanding in the insurer as of March 22, including the Treasury's $35.9 billion equity stake and $8.3 billion owed to the Fed.

Government nod: Ally Financial has the Treasury's support to put its ResCap mortgage-lending unit into bankruptcy, an Obama administration official told Bloomberg. The auto lender, which was bailed out to the tune of $17 billion, is 74 percent owned by the U.S. government.

Check yourself: The SEC has called for an independent investigation into charges of sexual misconduct against current and former staff in the watchdog's own inspector general's office, sources familiar told the Journal. David Kotz, who was the agency's inspector general during the time the misconduct is said to have occurred, told the paper "as far as I know, the allegations do not involve me."

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