When accounting goes unaccounted for
“How about the fact that you sold hundreds of millions of that deal after your people knew it was a shitty deal? Does that bother you at all?”
– Senator Carl Levin (D-MI) to Goldman Sachs’ Daniel Sparks, regarding SEC allegations that Goldman Sachs sold knowingly shitty CDOs to clients.
“I told them that there are things in there that inspire me, and there are things in there that I hate like the devil hates holy water. I’m not going to vote for this thing.”
~ The Illinois Senator doesn’t like the sales pitch from Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson.
“Could Ernst & Young have done a better job? Maybe, but claiming they could have done a better job doesn’t necessarily make them liable. Even the best of auditors can be fooled.”
~ Anthony Sabino, professor of law and business at St. John’s University
“It is of course for the tribunal to reach a conclusion on the allegations as […]