Senators grill Goldman execs
Goldman Sachs’s top executives, including CEO Lloyd Blankfein and Vice President Fabrice Tourre, visited Capitol Hill yesterday for a good old-fashioned grilling during a U.S. Senate committee hearing. New York Times financial reporter Louise Story was there and followed the hearings all day long. She found more than a few contradictions in the executives’ testimony, as the senators on the panel grew more and more testy.
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