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Fri Mar-12-10 12:53 PM
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Geithner's New York Fed Implicated in Lehman Accounting Fraud |
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Quite a few observers, including this blog, have been stunned and frustrated at the refusal to investigate what was almost certain accounting fraud at Lehman. Despite the bankruptcy administrator’s effort to blame the gaping hole in Lehman’s balance sheet on its disorderly collapse, the idea that a firm that the firm, which was by its own accounts solvent, would suddenly spring a $100+ billion hole its balance sheet, is simply implausible on its face. Indeed, it was such common knowledge in the Lehman flailing about period that Lehman’s accounts were sus that Hank Paulson’s recent book mentions repeatedly that Lehman’s valuations were phony as if it were no big deal.
Well. it is folks, as a newly-released examiner’s report by Anton Valukas in connection with the Lehman bankruptcy makes clear. The unravelling isn’t merely implicating Fuld and his recent succession of CFOs, or its accounting firm, Arthur Young, as might be expected. It also emerges that the NY Fed, and thus Timothy Geithner, were at a minimum massively derelict in the performance of their duties, and may well be culpable in aiding and abetting Lehman in accounting fraud and Sarbox violations.
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http://www.businessinsider.com/ny-fed-under-geithner-implicated-in-lehman-accounting-fraud-2010-3
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Fri Mar-12-10 01:12 PM
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Wall Street guys without scruples?
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Fri Mar-12-10 01:21 PM
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2. here's the question. Will Holder's DOJ |
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do it's job or are they too close?
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Fri Mar-12-10 01:23 PM
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3. It will be news only when someone actually enforces a law or two. |
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Fri Mar-12-10 11:28 PM
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Someone would have to be interested in doing that.
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