Did Auto Czar Steve Rattner Help Scam New York Pensioners?
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on April 20th, 2009 4:38 am by HL
Did Auto Czar Steve Rattner Help Scam New York Pensioners?
Steve Rattner, the money manager who is Obama’s top adviser on bailing out the auto industry, is uncomfortably close to a criminal investigation into the New York state pension fund, newspapers reported today. In October 2004 Rattner, the private equity…
JP Morgan Chief Disses TARP While Poaching Its Staff
Yesterday JP Morgan became the second huge bank this week to announce a return to multibillion dollar profits, largely due to record trading profits that are probably “one-offs” related to AIG, but nevertheless use this triumphant return to the black…
Torture Memos Released
Here are the OLC torture memos just released by the Justice Department… An 18-page memo [PDF], dated August 1, 2002, from Jay Bybee, Assistant Attorney General, OLC, to John A. Rizzo, General Counsel CIA. A 46-page memo [PDF], dated May…