Posted on 02/05/2010 2:42:22 PM PST by FTJM
No WAY is Bank of America CEO Ken Lewis going to be the only one to answer for the acquisition of crappy Merrill Lynch and its crappy bonuses, "a person close to Lewis's defense team" (who may or may not be Ken Lewis himself) tells Charlie Gasparino today on the Daily Beast. NO WAY will he be a scapegoat, alone, for the people who twisted his arm to go through with the Merrill deal by telling him he would be fired if he didn't. "If this thing goes to trial you can expect both Paulson and Bernanke to be on the witness list." If he's going down, he's bringing them down, too. Bringing them down to Chinatown. Order in the court!
(Excerpt) Read more at nymag.com ...
Hire a food tester, dude.
There’s no honor among thieves.
Really. THis one will never see a courtroom.
Sing, Ken, Sing!
Unfortunately you are right. Too bad, it would be a good start.
I know the banks have been scapegoats. Like being browbeat into giving loans to deadbeats, Crystal the stripper and her pimp....folks with no credit history who were never going to repay.
I know that Obama, Dodd, Frank and the like are spitting in the eyes of those who paid the bidding of those holding the treasury purse strings.
But hey, until some of them open their mouths and tell how it came down Obama will continue to make bogeymen of bankers, Dodd and Frank will get away with their crimes and that’s how I see it.
Washington is getting to be like Nassau in the 1700’s.
Correct
Mr Lewis is going to have a heart attack
Frankly - This could be a good popcorn event....
If something happens to Mr. Lewis or he is shut up; we will know where to look.
We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge or gallantry would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. - John Adams
The ghost of Vince Foster will be visiting Mr Lewis.
Lewis, take them down, all of them.
Ken needs to consult with Glenn Beck on security.
Tag team Girlyman fight!
Cuomo's trying to get on the offensive prior to his run for governor, where he'll be put on the defensive.
Nice try Andy, but Ken Lewis is not going to let you get away with that, even if the mainstream media and the NY GOP do.
This is shaping up as world class entertainment.
Asprirn overdose coming again? The Chicago way....
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