April 2010
2 posts
WHILE CITIGROUP BURNED, BOB RUBIN JUST WANTED TO...
I also remember teasingly inquiring as to whether he’d flown in on a Citigroup jet again. (He’d called me from one in December.) “It’s one of the perks,” he replied a bit sheepishly.
Things were much more relaxed by the time I walked him back to the Ritz - which was along the way to my South Beach condo. When we passed a homeless man along the way he made a bit...
me: god this debate is making me so insane
pressler: which one
me: about goldman
pressler: which one
I am so over it
me: well, it's just shitty because no one seems to get that the SEC has been like systematically barred from enforcing any laws at all for the last 5 years
so it is like, you know, when a few kids die of alcohol poisoning at a "party school" and then suddenly the cops start citing
Goldman is just the first bar they raided
it may not be the most egregious
like, i remember at Penn.
Goldman would be Smokey Joe's, and Citigroup would be this place down at 44th and spruce called Murph's that let me in as a pre-frosh with an asian girl's ID
Raiding Goldman "sends a message" better that you're gonna start actually enforcing the law.
Get the message, stupid public!