Hints and tips:
...The cycle continued through Robert Rubin, a trader and arbitrageur, banker Steve Friedman, and trader Jon Corzine....
...It was “like living the history of imperial Rome”, according to an account in Charles Ellis’s book about the bank, The Partnership ....
...inscription: “Charles Lanier from J....
...Charles Carey and Joseph Niciforo, as well as their trading firm, Henning-Carey, filed the class-action complaint in federal court in Chicago last week to recover some of the estimated $1.2bn that went missing...
...The federal indictment, one of the largest criminal financial fraud cases ever prosecuted in federal court, alleges that Eric Bloom, the firm’s ex-president and chief executive, and Charles Mosley, its erstwhile...
...As Charles Ponzi himself might have said: “Tings ain’t wot they used to be.”...
...The duo did not get along and Corzine was forced out in a coup involving John Thain and John Thornton....
...Michael Bloomberg, New York’s mayor, and Jon Corzine, New Jersey governor, won the support of millions of voters in their quests for political office....
...“I don’t think anybody else even comes close [to holding the number of top positions in Washington],” says Charles Geisst, a Wall Street historian and professor at Manhattan College, who points out that...
...Charles Schumer, the New York Democrat who chairs the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, called Tuesday’s vote “a clear repudiation of George Bush and the GOP agenda”....
...In New Jersey, Mr Corzine, a former Goldman Sachs chairman, defeated Douglas Forrester 53-44 per cent....
International Edition