Posted on 10/07/2008 7:42:43 AM PDT by meandog
Richard Fuld, the disgraced head of Lehman Brothers, was punched in the face in the office gym amid the bank's collapse.
Mr Fuld, who has been testifying on the financial crisis before the US House Oversight Committee, was attacked on a Sunday shortly after it was announced that the banking giant was bankrupt.
Following rumours that the incident had occurred, Vicki Ward, a US journalist, said "two very senior sources - one incredibly senior source" had confirmed it to her. "He went to the gym after ... Lehman was announced as going under," she told CNBC. "He was on a treadmill with a heart monitor on. Someone was in the corner, pumping iron and he walked over and he knocked him out cold.
"And frankly after having watched [Mr Fuld's testimony to the committee], I'd have done the same too."
"I thought he was shameless ... I thought it was appalling. He blamed everyone ... He blamed everybody but himself
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Not suprising.
Good. Now somebody needs to bitch slap Barney Frank.
An honest solid, masculine punch in the nose just doesn’t seem appropriate.
I hope the thug was arrested.
Buy that guy a drink!
Not sure whether you mean Fuld or the other guy. It relates to both...
And promptly given a public service award.
Maybe he should PAY for a membership in another gym not use the FREE gym in his office building.
“Good. Now somebody needs to bitch slap Barney Frank.”
He might like it. He’s a naughty, naughty queen in more ways than one.
I’d like to do that to 3/4 of the US Congress.
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Before defending "Dick" Fuld too aggressively you ought to know a bit about his background and penchant for getting into brawls. He was kicked out of the U.S. Air Force for punching his commanding officer (he claimed he did it because the c.o. was "taunting" a cadet that Fuld had befriended, however, reliable testimony from his USAF squadron suggests that the commander was "disciplining" the Academy cadet for non-performance of duty). He also got into a fist fight with another father over a hockey game in which their two sons were playing.
His luck may yet run out and then he'd be lucky to be swinging by his heels and not some other part of his body.
“I hope the thug was arrested.”
What a puss post.
You are too funny. The idiot runs the company into the ground, people lose their jobs, pensions, he gets filthy rich doing it....and your worried about poor, poor Dickie Fuld. This guy's lucky that's all that has been done to him to date. A punch in the face just does not seem like enough....
Even bigger than a punch in the face, to me anyway, is spending stock holders and investor’s money on an office gym...And of course staff to run it sounds more like a government operation.
Richard Fuld...poster boy for “reversal of fortune” (although he’s
still purty derned rich...which might also be another “reversal
of fortune if he ends up facing criminal and/or civil lawsuits)
From Fuld’s wikipedia profile (can’t get the link to work...
makes me wonder if Wikipedia sometimes blocks link via FR?)
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In 2006, Fuld was named #1 CEO in the Brokers & Asset Managers category, by Institutional Investor magazine.[citation needed] In 2007 he received a $22 million bonus.
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“You are too funny. The idiot runs the company into the ground, people lose their jobs, pensions, he gets filthy rich doing it....and your worried about poor, poor Dickie Fuld. This guy’s lucky that’s all that has been done to him to date. A punch in the face just does not seem like enough....”
Not sure when people here broke against capitalism and for mob rule. He lost 100s of millions in the bankruptcy. Sometimes things go bust. It’s called capitalism.
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