[Bigtigermike]

GOLDMAN BOSS VISITED WHITE HOUSE AT LEAST 4 TIMES.......While GOLDMAN SACHS lawyers negotiated with SEC over civil 'fraud charges'...

[Dansong]

I don't get it: If Obama was in bed with Goldman wouldn't the outrage be that the SEC is passing on charges? Or is it all a ruse: the crimes are real yet the sentence is a slap??

[throwback]

It's like Barry said when questioned on the timing of this case yesterday, the SEC is completely independent and the WH is not interfering in the investigation. He didn't say they didn't tell the SEC when to initiate the investigation, though. Also the purchase of a link on Google to drive the curious to the WH regarding the case shows that they flipped the switch on the investigation. Of course GS is a partially own subsidiary of the democrat party and soon to become a wholly owned subsidiary after the reform, so the WH won't beat them up too bad.

[Tempest]

LOL!!! Grasping at straws.

A firm as massive and crooked as Goldmans has had an audience with any sitting president for the past 50+ years.

[grayhog]

Goldman CEO Lloyd Blankfein has had his Neville Chamberlain moment and is now officially one of Obama’s useful idiots (to mix metaphors between the Nazi’s and Communists). All of Blankfein’s donations, lobbying and pleading didn’t help and Goldman is getting pounded because Obama has decided Goldman is more useful as the villain than as a contributor. Hopefully the rest of American industry has learned that you cannot negotiate or bribe yourself to good fortune with an economic terrorist like Obama.

Healthcare stocks are now getting pounded as they begin to report their earnings and are reducing their outlook because of how much Obamacare will cost them. Financial companies will have to do the same as Obama will get the Dodd bill through. Energy companies better look because they are next on the hit list with Cap and Trade.

[massgopguy]

Ask Gibbs about this.

[Vaduz]

Negotiated a deal you can’t refuse.You have a nice family.

[RJS1950]

Of course he’s visiting the WH. A lot of the criminals formerly at GS are now at the WH.

[Deb]

Geez, Ex-Goldman chirman, Robert Rubin, gave Clinton $250,000 and got appointed Treasury Secretary. The new guy should get something.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

From MW:

Meet the new Goldman derivatives business

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April 22, 2010, 12:01 a.m. EDT

By David Callaway, MarketWatch

SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) - Meet Goldman Sachs, international airline. No baggage fees; volcano proof; business class only.

That's about how easy it would be for Goldman Sachs Group Inc. /quotes/comstock/13*!gs/quotes/nls/gs (GS 159.56, +0.63, +0.40%) to fly through the ash-cloud of loopholes an over-heated Congress is spitting up in its latest attempt to regulate the derivatives market. In its zeal to punish Wall Street for the financial crisis, Congress is now focused on the middle of the three most bearish ways to regulate banks.