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Hunch About Bloomberg Brought Rivals Together
Dealbook/The New York Times ^ | 5/31/2013 | SUSANNE CRAIG and JESSICA SILVER-GREENBERG

Posted on 06/01/2013 11:24:16 AM PDT by Beave Meister

Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase are usually bitter rivals, competing for lucrative banking and trading business. But one day in April, the Wall Street titans found common ground: frustration with the Bloomberg news and financial data empire.

Goldman’s public relations chief, Jake Siewert, a former Treasury official, called his counterpart at JPMorgan Chase, Joe Evangelisti, with a simple question: “Do you have any issues with Bloomberg?”

Before he could finish his sentence, Mr. Evangelisti began rattling off his grievances, say people briefed on the call. At the top of the list was a Bloomberg News article in 2011 that likened the strife in an Italian town after a bad deal with JPMorgan to the fallout from the Nazis’ occupation in World War II. He also mentioned another episode when a Bloomberg reporter surreptitiously obtained an access code to listen to a private conference call for senior executives.

(Excerpt) Read more at dealbook.nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: bloomberg; corruption; fraud; liberals; newyork; newyorkcity; obama; partisanmediashill; partisanmediashills; scandals; spying; wallstreet
Tisk, tisk, tisk......
1 posted on 06/01/2013 11:24:16 AM PDT by Beave Meister
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To: Beave Meister

These people need to be in prison.


2 posted on 06/01/2013 11:25:17 AM PDT by kjo (+)
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To: Beave Meister

Bloomberg the very embodyment of the reason for term limits.


3 posted on 06/01/2013 12:08:10 PM PDT by mosesdapoet (Serious contribution pause.Please continue onto meaningless venting no one reads.)
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To: Beave Meister

Nanny Bloomberg’s company.


4 posted on 06/01/2013 12:59:32 PM PDT by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: Beave Meister

Privacy is merely a figment of times past.


5 posted on 06/01/2013 3:26:20 PM PDT by outofsalt ("If History teaches us anything it's that history rarely teaches us anything")
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