hvactec
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11/03/2011
Can we all agree that a $1 billion swindle represents a lot of money, and the fact that Citigroup agreed last week to pay a $285 million fine to settle SEC charges for misleading investors demonstrates a damning admission of culpability?
So why has Robert Rubin, the onetime treasury secretary who went on to become Citigroup chairman during the time of the corporations financial shenanigans, never been held accountable for this and other deep damage done to the U.S. economy on his watch?
Rubins tenure atop the world of high finance began when he was co-chairman of Goldman Sachs, before he became Bill Clintons treasury secretary and pushed through the reversal of the Glass-Steagall Act, an action that legalized the formation of Citigroup and other too big to fail banking conglomerates.
Rubins destructive impact on the economy in enabling these giant corporate banks to run amok was far greater than that of swindler Bernard Madoff, who sits in prison under a 150-year sentence while Rubin sits on the Harvard Board of Overseers, as chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations and as a leader of the Brookings Institutions Hamilton Project.
Rubin was rewarded for his efforts on behalf of Citigroup with a top job as chairman of the banks executive committee and at least $126 million in compensation. That was compensation for steering the bank to the point of a bankruptcy avoided only by a $45 billion taxpayer bailout and a further guarantee of $300 billion of the banks toxic assets.
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Can we all agree that a $1 billion swindle represents a lot of money, and the fact that Citigroup agreed last week to pay a $285 million fine to settle SEC charges for misleading investors demonstrates a damning admission of culpability?
So why has Robert Rubin, the onetime treasury secretary who went on to become Citigroup chairman during the time of the corporations financial shenanigans, never been held accountable for this and other deep damage done to the U.S. economy on his watch?
Rubins tenure atop the world of high finance began when he was co-chairman of Goldman Sachs, before he became Bill Clintons treasury secretary and pushed through the reversal of the Glass-Steagall Act, an action that legalized the formation of Citigroup and other too big to fail banking conglomerates.
Rubins destructive impact on the economy in enabling these giant corporate banks to run amok was far greater than that of swindler Bernard Madoff, who sits in prison under a 150-year sentence while Rubin sits on the Harvard Board of Overseers, as chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations and as a leader of the Brookings Institutions Hamilton Project.
Rubin was rewarded for his efforts on behalf of Citigroup with a top job as chairman of the banks executive committee and at least $126 million in compensation. That was compensation for steering the bank to the point of a bankruptcy avoided only by a $45 billion taxpayer bailout and a further guarantee of $300 billion of the banks toxic assets.
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