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WASHINGTON - APRIL 27:
CODEPINKers hold placards during a Senate
Homeland and Secruity and Government Affairs Committee Permanent Subcommittee
on Investigations hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, April 27,
2010. Goldman Sachs has denied reaping vast profits from the collapse
of the US housing market as its top executive and a star trader faced
hostile questions in Congress over the 2008 financial meltdown. McCain
said today, "I don't know if Goldman has done anything illegal,”
but “there's no doubt their behavior was unethical, and the American
people will render a judgment.” How is this for judgment?
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Prison
Garb for the Goldman Gang, AlterNet, April 28, 2010
The
Guardian
It was a tough debut for the 31-year-old, who was greeted in Congress
by a group of Code Pink demonstrators dressed in black and white prison
stripes, bearing signs reading: "Stop looting America!" Yet
Tourre was unflustered – in fact, he proved to be something of a
smiler, wearing a faint smirk through opening exchanges in which senators
made blustery statements of outrage over the excesses of Wall Street's
wealthiest investment bank.
Goldman's
tangled investment web -CNN
The top boss at Goldman Sachs, CEO Lloyd Blankfein, heads to Capitol
Hill. sitting behind fabulous fab tourre. blankfein not here yet. ...code
pink is.
ABC
News
Code Pink demonstrators hold placards during a Senate Homeland and Secruity
and Government Affairs Committee Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations
hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, April 27, 2010. Goldman Sachs
denied reaping vast profits from the collapse of the US housing market
as its top executive and a star trader faced hostile questions in Congress
over the 2008 financial meltdown.
Raw
Story
Documents released at a Senate hearing into Goldman Sachs' role in the
financial crisis show the firm strategizing on how to bet against its
clients' investments. The hearing featured protesters in jail uniforms
calling for the arrest of Goldman executives, and was punctuated by a
profanity-laced exchange between a Goldman executive and Sen. Carl Levin
(D-MI), who used the term "sh**ty deal" 11 times.
McClatchy
News FRONTPAGE
Protesters disrupt a Senate hearing on the role of investment banks, including
Goldman Sachs, during the financial crisis.
Business
Week
“Blankfein's not doing God's work, he's doing the
work of the devil,” one of the protestors said, referring to a comment
Blankfein made in November while defending the banking industry.
Quote of the day:
Levin asked: Did you tell your clients that "this was a shitty deal?"
"Your top priority was to sell that shitty deal."
"Should Goldman be trying to sell a shitty deal?"
Levin later grilled Viniar about the e-mails or comments in which Goldman
employees referred to specific deals as "crap" or "shitty"
or "junk." What did he think about such disparaging comments
— and how would clients feel about them? Levin asked.
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more...
An oldie but goodie! CODEPINK disrupting
Goldman Sacsh CEO last year
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