Posts Tagged ‘Fabrice Tourre

Potty Mouths: Senators Talk Shit To Tourre

Throwing Goldman Sachs’ execs own words back at them, Senators repeatedly perked up everyone’s ears Tuesday as they pointedly tossed around the obscenity the execs had so liberally used to describe one of their failing investment deals, known as Timberland. Funnily enough, it was Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI), chair of the Senate investigative panel looking [...]

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All the Fuss About the Goldman Fraud Charges

So April 16, the SEC charged Goldman Sachs and VP Fabrice Tourre with civil fraud charges stemming from 2007 CDO deals with John Paulson’s hedge fund (the eponymous Paulson & Co.)– and since Goldman and Paulson are huge names and the prospect of scandal makes us all salivate, everyone has their panties in a twist. [...]

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