U.S. Forced Bank Board To Carry Out Merrill Deal
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on April 24th, 2009 4:31 am by HL
U.S. Forced Bank Board To Carry Out Merrill Deal
NEW YORK, April 23 — Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke and former Treasury secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr. threatened to remove the management and board of Bank of America if it backed out of its deal to acquire ailing investment house Merrill Lynch late last year, according to documents r…
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