No, I’m not talking about a bond or anything. I’m talking about The Annotated Fuld: A popular portrait of ex-Lehman boss Dick Fuld painted by street artist Geoffrey Raymond could fetch a price deep into the six-figure range as its owner, former Lehman head trader Larry McCarthy, fields offers from prospective buyers. McCarthy, who now [...]
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The Latest To Get Ripped Off By The Banksters? The States
March 26th, 2010 · 2 Comments · lehman brothers
Did you think prix fixe was just for restaurants? Think again, because the Justice Department has now dragged some very large names into a conspiracy to fix rates paid to state + local govermnents: JPMorgan Chase & Co., Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. and UBS AG were among more than a dozen Wall Street firms involved [...]
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Weekend Links And POLL: A Tidy Cell For Dick Fuld?
March 13th, 2010 · 2 Comments · lehman brothers, links
Charlie Gasparino writes this weekend on why, despite the obvious shiftiness in the recent report on why Lehman Brothers failed, Dick Fuld will never have the shadow of the bars of a prison cell cast upon his face. Poll: Hickory, Dick-ory…answers I won’t bother asking if you think there will be jail for Geithner, as [...]
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Lehman Faked It, Timmay Knew It, That Settles It?
March 12th, 2010 · 11 Comments · lehman brothers, Timmay
There is a massive, 2,200 page tome that was released yesterday that goes into excruciating detail as to why Lehman failed. Anton Valukas, the examiner, assuredly had a lot to work with. We weren’t quite expecting an encyclopedia, but we guess we shouldn’t be surprised either. And what did he find? Bad mortgages? Sure, of [...]
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You Have Until September 22
September 17th, 2009 · 1 Comment · lehman brothers
Wow, people really want to get their money back from Lehman! 9,763 claims as of September 11, per the NY Times. What kind of wacky people are trying to wring every last dime out of history’s greatest failure? New York City’s Department of Finance wants $626,999,222. And seventeen cents. Seems as if the company had [...]
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