The Young and the Restless - MESSAGE BOARDS

Michael is a trip and needs to remember that he is Victor's kiss butt lawyer and not a Newman. He so quick to judge Adam and to express his feelings over what Victor is giving Ashley in the divorce as if he in the damn "Will". As usual he needs to shut the heck up, stop being so judgemental and do as he's told by the person who is paying him because his gold-digging momma Gloria and her side kick Jeffrey not giving him a dime. Hypocrites Michael and Lauren always talking out both sides of their face, one minuet he not gonna be used by them, then the next he in there scheming with those two useless losers. Lauren may not like this but I'm sure she gonna be right there in the mix with them as usual.

This may come as a shock, but I think that Michael is doing the exact right thing. This particular storyline could be a very interesting one, again, if the writers do it right. You see, now that we know that The great and powerful Oz is returning to the show after all, then I believe that he should be called on the carpet for all of his misdeeds of late. If the bank was on the verge of collapsing, you can bet your last dollar bill that Victor knew it and when he took his money out of that bank I am sure that more than just Jill, Gloria and Jeffery lost their holdings, their cash flow as well. This is a big thing, a big storyline! If Michael didn't get to the bottom of it, he could be held liable, as Victor's attorney, if insider information was traded before the bank failed. Michael is covering his own backside, just in case. And, in the process he can return his mother's money to her and Jill's money to her, all the better. The thing is this.....Victor brought a woman to town who almost killed his granddaughter and he has no remorse. He was trying to destroy the career of his own godchild, who ended up dead because of what he did to get back at Jack. Oh yea, he got his revenge on Jack for the diaries in the end by the events that HE set into motion. Jack lost his most beloved and really innocent niece and then Victor took her heart so that he could live to see another day and yet, he has no remorse, heck, he isn't even grateful! Instead of letting others know that a bank which held so much money of people he knew, he took his and let them loose theirs, but yet he has no remorese! Under his own roof, his own son was driving his wife crazy and yet he never hired people or took enough time to find out himself what was really going on, yet he has no remorse. And now, to put the icing on the cake, he is asking a woman that he practically wished was dead and swept the floor with to forgive him and put the past behind her by offering a big diamond and life with him and yet he still shows no remorse. He is not repentent. He is not even willing to face what he has done! How many lives he has destroyed! He has yet to even apologize to his own son and daughter in law for his part in grandaughter dying. He feels no remorse for lying to Phyllis to her face when she went to him in earnest to find out the truth before she left with her little girl to get her more help! Yes, these are all things that the powerful and rich Oz has done! Yet, he feels no remorse, he feels justified in all of this! You betcha, if I was Michael Baldwin, I would cover my backside today and everyday that I worked for this monster! He is, afterall the lawyer for this man and there is no telling what Victor has him do for him! Michael Baldwin is a very smart, tough and very savvy business man and lawyer, he has every right to recover his mother's lost fortune and he has every right to cover his own butt if Victor has done anything that would put him in jeapordy!

Insider trading is a crime, no matter who told the Mustache or how he found out, he can get in trouble for taking his money out. That's a corrupt businessman.
So either him or Nick are guilty of a crime.

I watched the episode so I feel like I can comment on it. I think that Michael is very apprehesive about helping Gloria and Jeffery. He was out in the hallways for quite awhile arguing about it with them. When he came back in he really didn't know how the heck they talked him into it. He looked like he had been hit by a truck.
Having said that. This is his mother we are talking about. No matter who his client is I would expect that a son would take into account that his mother got fleeced and drop the client in favour of her. Blood runs thicker than water even if that blood tends to be on the looney toons side. Michael has show over and over again that he's there for his family. If anyone should understand and respect him for that Victor should. He would do the same for his family.

HMMM! the thing is that the CAYMAN ISLANDS and the banking system there is known as a TAX-HAVEN for the very wealthy . The rich put their moneies, investment portfolios, and TAX-SHELTERS with bogus corporations there in the CAYMAN's to HIDE money from the U.S. GOVERNMENT. TGVN, JILL, and DUMB & DUMBER were "all" trying to HIDE money from the U.S. GOVERNMENT. It seems to me that TPTB were trying to shadow current events somewhat by having a bank collapse(there have been over ONE-HUNDRED collapse in the U.S. in the last year). In the U.S. many of us know that the FDIC insures depositers up to 100,000.00 and just recently I believe CONGRESS raised that to $250,000.00 which the banks in CAYMAN do NOT have their government backing federal deposits. Many of the depositors who are depositing in the CAYMAN ISLANDS are doing so because the are hiding monies or the money has come from illegal activities such as drug-running or illegal arms sales. I do find it very unusual for JILL to have all or most of her money in ONE bank because she has always been written to be an astute and savy businesswoman. DUMB & DUMBER, well that is another story altogether. TPTB may be going in another direction because PRESIDENT OBAMA has stated that he will go after people who are "hiding" money from the IRS! NICK did give TGVN some info about rumors of problems in the bank BUT even though BANKS rarely have all of the money that depositers have at the bank itself(because they are investing the cash to make more money)TGVN did cause a panic of sorts when he pulled his money out of the bank. It was his "right" to do so. I'm just not sure that the insider trading is something that the SEC(which governs the STOCK MARKET) or the FDIC(which governs U.S. banks) can do anything in this case because the bank is in the CAYMAN ISLANDS. Whatever happens it looks like to me that ALL concerned were trying to avoid paying TAXES to our governmenmt because they are/were GREEDY). as far as MICHAEL goes, it does look like a conflict of interest and I wounder if he could be disbarred. But maybe he will simply resign as TGVN's personal lawyer while ole VIC "slithers" out of town.................................

All I can say is like most male characters in this story, Michael is not thinking with too high a light bulb...