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Barclays chief threatens to hit back
Financial Times ^ | 02 July 2012 | Patrick Jenkins, Brooke Masters, George Parker

Posted on 07/02/2012 3:35:04 PM PDT by Lorianne

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Bob Diamond is threatening to reveal potentially embarrassing details about Barclays’ dealings with regulators if he comes under fire at a parliamentary hearing on Wednesday over the Libor rate-setting scandal, according to people close to the bank’s chief executive.

“If he is attacked, he will fight back,” said one person familiar with preparations for the Treasury select committee hearing.

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1 posted on 07/02/2012 3:35:09 PM PDT by Lorianne
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To: Lorianne

Barclays bankrolls the Mugabe terror state of Zimbabwe.


2 posted on 07/02/2012 3:48:01 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: Lorianne

hunh. so, if they leave him alone, he’ll keep quiet about whatever damning information he has? what a sport.


3 posted on 07/02/2012 3:57:42 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand (A Dalmation was spotted trotting down the street...)
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To: Lorianne
I wish people wouldn't post pay links.
Doesn't FR have any policy about that?

Dumb. Dumb.

4 posted on 07/02/2012 5:50:15 PM PDT by publius911 (Formerly Publius 6961, formerly jennsdad)
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To: publius911

It isn’t a pay link


5 posted on 07/02/2012 7:13:19 PM PDT by Lorianne (fedgov, taxporkmoney)
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