NYSE DIS-GRASSO (under fire for naming disgraced Citi's Weill to board)

NY POST ^ | March 25, 2003 | PAUL THARP

[Liz]

Blundering and clueless - those are just two of the more polite adjectives being hurled at New York Stock Exchange head Dick Grasso for his latest misstep. Grasso caused a firestorm of protest by nominating disgraced Citigroup Chairman Sandy Weill to sit on the board of the world's most important stock exchange.

[Liz]

Weill and Citigroup were at the center of one of the most costly debacles of Wall Street wrongdoing, with the firm forced to pay a $400 million fine to settle a probe by the New York Attorney General ....

Protection rackets are business-as-usual on Wall St.

[Claire Voyant]

Grasso is SLIMEY.

[razorback-bert]

Grasso is defending his choice of Weill to sit on the 27-person board, saying in a statement: "I regret deeply that we will not have the benefit of his contributions."

It is hard to have crony capitalism without cronies.

[Fractal Trader]

This is series!

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