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Lehman CEO knocked out at Gym

 
 
Reply Mon 6 Oct, 2008 05:32 pm
Knock Out: CNBC Confirms Lehman CEO Punched at Gym
Network verifies reports Richard Fuld was attacked for financial institution's bankruptcy.




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It seems anxiety from the financial crisis is reaching new highs, but the tipping point for one individual came at the Lehman Brothers gym in the midst of the company’s collapse.

While former Lehman CEO Richard Fuld was testifying before the House Oversight Committee Oct. 6, CNBC reported he had been punched in the face at the Lehman Brothers gym after it was announced the firm was going bankrupt. CNBC and Vanity Fair contributor Vicki Ward said Fuld was attacked at the gym on a Sunday following the bankruptcy.
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Reply Mon 6 Oct, 2008 05:53 pm
The guy earned over $400 million, and bankrupted the company. I'd do more than punch him out.
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Reply Mon 6 Oct, 2008 06:24 pm
Worse yet, the bastards walks away with his dough and we're left
hanging with the tab. There should be a criminal investigation, really.
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Reply Mon 6 Oct, 2008 06:26 pm
Yup, I agree, but I don't put too much hope on that kind of thing happening with this president and congress.
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Reply Mon 6 Oct, 2008 06:27 pm
CalamityJane wrote:

Worse yet, the bastards walks away with his dough and we're left
hanging with the tab. There should be a criminal investigation, really.
of what, capitalism?
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Reply Mon 6 Oct, 2008 08:07 pm
Fraud!
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Reply Mon 6 Oct, 2008 08:32 pm
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Lehman board recommended $20 million in executive ‘special payments’ while filing for bailout.

The AP reports that Lehman CEO Richard Fuld admitted to Congress today that he has taken home over $300 million since 2000, “some $60 million in cash compensation.” Furthermore, “executives who feared for their bonuses in the company’s last months were told not to worry,” even as Lehman plead for a federal bailout. Waxman revealed that “the board give three departing executives over $20 million in ‘special payments.’”

Watch it at,

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/10/06/lehman-board-recommended-20-million-in-executive-%e2%80%98special-payments-while-filing-for-bailout/#more-30334

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Reply Mon 6 Oct, 2008 09:24 pm
Paulson's bailout plan would be the White House pork barrel.
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Reply Mon 6 Oct, 2008 09:35 pm
It makes me just sick to see how they defrauded the system and now get
rewarded for it. Bastards!!
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Reply Mon 6 Oct, 2008 10:28 pm
What pork barrel? Conservatives don't believe in pork; haven't you been listening to McCain and Palin?
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Reply Tue 7 Oct, 2008 12:32 am
hopefully he got brain damage for the rest of his life.

oh if life were only so fair, only so just...
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Reply Tue 7 Oct, 2008 02:01 am
For crissake....ALL you people are supporting violent vigilantism?

(Except mebbe Dys???)


I am truly shocked and disgusted.
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Reply Tue 7 Oct, 2008 02:09 am
I meant all the people who have responded to the original post, btw. (Except mebbe Dys.)
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Reply Tue 7 Oct, 2008 06:31 am
I support it. One man's vigilante is another man's hero.
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Reply Tue 7 Oct, 2008 08:22 am
There's nothing wrong with an old-fashioned, playground style beatdown now and then. It can build character for all involved.

In terms of criminal charges, the FBI is already at work, but it's of course a bottom-up investiagtion that will take years, and will ultimately depend on proving those at the top "knowingly" did wrong. Simply being a dumbfuck with bad financial models is, sadly, not a crime.
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Reply Tue 7 Oct, 2008 09:42 am
I've not seen many government investigations that turned out as expected; they usually died on its own accord.
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