Wall Street Aristocracy Got $1.2 Trillion in Secret Loans

Wall Street Aristocracy Got $1.2 Trillion in Secret Loans
By Bradley Keoun and Phil Kuntz
Aug. 22, 2011 (Bloomberg)

The Federal Reserve's unprecedented effort to keep the economy from plunging into depression included lending banks and other companies as much as $1.2 trillion of public money. The largest borrower, Morgan Stanley, got as much as $107.3 billion, while Citigroup Inc. took $99.5 billion and Bank of America Corp. $91.4 billion, according to a Bloomberg News compilation of data obtained through Freedom of Information Act requests, months of litigation and an act of Congress.

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