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The Goldman Sachs Hearing – Uncensored! (Literally)

Posted on April 28, 2010 by Adrienne Gonzalez

“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.

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