Congresswoman presses Geithner on connections to Goldman Sachs
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David Edwards
Raw Story
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
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Rep. Maxine Waters (DEM-CA) asked Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner about his connections to Goldman Sachs at a House banking hearing Tuesday morning. Goldman Sachs is known to have received bailout money given to A.I.G. Goldman may have participated in the government decision to provide the original bailout money to A.I.G.
Geithner told Waters that Goldman Sachs could help manage the new program to help banks remove toxic assets from their books. It is possible, if they are qualified, he said.
Former Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson once served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer for Goldman Sachs, afer working for the firm for decades.
Neither did it look good when Geithner — himself a protégé of notorious Goldman alum John Thain, the Merrill Lynch chief who paid out billions in bonuses after the state spent billions bailing out his firm — picked a former Goldman lobbyist named Mark Patterson to be his top aide, writes Matt Taibbi in Rolling Stone.
In February, Congresswoman Waters received a lot of attention after telling the heads of J.P. Morgan Chase, Bank of America, Goldman Sachs and five other powerhouses at a prior House hearing, To the captains of the universe sitting here before all of us, all of my political life I have been in disagreement with the banking industry.
The Washington Post noted that Waters was dripping sarcasm from every syllable of captains and universe. Bank of America chief executive Kenneth Lewis attempted a little joke in response, saying, I feel like a corporal of the universe. Stony silence from the seething Waters.
Lesson to future Hill witnesses: Dont taunt a grouch, Frank Ahrens wrote for the paper. Especially one with power.
This video is from CNNs Newsroom, broadcast Mar. 24, 2009.
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Geithner is good on the spot. Think he talks a whole lot of shit but he's good at it.
IAmHilarious 2 years ago
she has no idea what she is talking about
surfvb07 2 years ago
Looks to me like they are looking for a fall guy to fire over the petty bonus flap which they all knew about.
bobfever100 2 years ago