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...Later that month, he abruptly fired Fox’s star host Tucker Carlson, sending shockwaves through media and political circles....
...He is happily married to his fourth wife Jerry Hall, who friends say has brought more balance to his life....
...Jerry del Missier: sound bet Jerry del Missier, the former Barclays number two, and Bob Diamond’s old right-hand man, has had an unpleasant few years....
...Jerry Zaks’s staging sticks resolutely to that familiar formula and eschews any trace of directorial innovation....
...An alleged conversation in 2008 between Sir Paul Tucker, then head of markets at the Bank of England, and Mr Diamond has already attracted parliamentary scrutiny because Mr Diamond’s contemporaneous note...
...Rupert, returning from a holiday with his new wife Jerry Hall, joined the discussions later....
...While neither Mr Tucker nor Mr Diamond took the call to mean that Barclays should lower its Libor submissions, Jerry del Missier, then co-head of the investment bank, “misinterpreted” Mr Diamond’s note and...
...the pic for the feed from the Wilson Room in Porticullis House: Andrew Tyrie was grilling Del Missier on his conversation with Bob Diamond (after that call between Diamond and the Bank of England’s Paul Tucker...
...What did Diamond then tell Jerry del Missier, who this week stepped down as Barclays chief operating officer....
...But Jerry del Missier, who also resigned on Tuesday, “misinterpreted” the notes and instructed his underlings to lower Barclays estimates of its borrowing costs, Barclays and the settlement documents said...
...Jerry del Missier, chief operating officer of Barclays, is also stepping down. Nominative determinism simply screams out for the pair to found Bob & Jerry’s Ice Cream....
...The committee has not yet called further witnesses, but it is expected to hear evidence from Jerry Del Missier, Barclays’ former chief operating officer, the Financial Services Authority and the British...
...Del Missier’s testimony appeared to contradict Diamond’s evidence to MPs that he gave no instructions, following a phone call with the Bank of England’s Paul Tucker (Financial Times)....
...“Jerry is a boy scout,” says one. “There are no shades of grey to his integrity. He will not be mean-spirited towards Bob or Tucker. But he won’t obfuscate either. He’ll tell the truth.”...
...But Jerry del Missier, the third Barclays executive to testify on the Libor-rigging scandal, made clear he believed the bank’s former chief executive had instructed him to lower the lender’s borrowing submissions...
...Also, Paul Tucker and Mr Diamond didn’t think they had given or received an instruction to lower Libor rates although, after his testimony, Jerry del Missier thought they had....
...At the time, he had relayed a summary of that conversation by email to Jerry Del Missier, then co-head of investment banking....
...Mr Diamond denied he had taken the call as an instruction to lowball Libor, but his evidence was contradicted by Jerry del Missier, Barclays former chief operating officer, who received what he said as “...
...Jerry del Missier appeared to contradict the evidence of his boss Bob Diamond on Monday when the ex-chief operating officer of Barclays told MPs that he “passed instructions along” to take actions that would...
...need to be …as high” – was widely seen as damaging Mr Tucker’s candidacy....
...How convenient it is therefore for Bob Diamond to be able to claim that Paul Tucker’s comment was not a “directive” and that his close associate Jerry Del Missier had “misunderstood”....
...Mr Agius said Mr Diamond and Jerry del Missier, the chief operating officer who also resigned on Tuesday, had “chosen to put the future of Barclays ahead of their own careers”....
...Mr Tucker is seen as the frontrunner to replace Sir Mervyn King as governor when he steps down next year....
...Additional reporting by Sundeep Tucker in Hong Kong...
...Tucker Martin, press spokesman for Mr Kilgore, said: “The president is popular in Virginia and the state is conservative by nature.”...
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