Lehman Brothers

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• The Financial Times

  Fuld faces new probe on Lehman collapse

  Dick Fuld, chief executive of failed Lehman Brothers, and regulators face a testing congressional hearing into the bank's collapse next month after a report found a dubious accounting procedure helped the bank conceal the extent of its financial dist

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• National Public Radio

  Letter: Lehman's Accounting Tricks Possibly Illegal

  A Lehman Brothers whistleblower warned his bosses that accounting gimmicks the bank used before its collapse may have been illegal, his lawyer said Friday.

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• The Guardian

  Treasury calls in Vince Cable for talks on implications of a hung parliament

  • Liberal Democrat 'ready to be chancellor' • Whitehall mandarins prepare for coalition

  Vince Cable has held unprecedented and detailed talks with the top official at the Treasury about the Liberal Democrats' economic

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• The Guardian

  Stop bank bosses gambling with our money

  Even Mervyn King is taking note of economist Larry Kotlikoff's radical plan to reform banks and stop their trail of bets

  The 1946 classic It's a Wonderful Life, starring Jimmy Stewart, is an uplifting tale about the differ

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• Times Online

  It’s business as usual for Lehman Brothers chiefs

  IT’S just over a week since Anton Valukas wheeled out his gargantuan report on the collapse of Lehman Brothers. Seven days isn’t really enough to absorb the weight of the bank examiner’s nine-volume, 2,200-page tome, but it’s fair to say ther

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• The Financial Times

  Dodd calls for Lehman inquiry

  The chairman of the Senate banking committee wants the justice department to investigate alleged accounting wrongdoing at Lehman Brothers and prosecute those who might have broken the law

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• CNN

  U.S. senator calls for Lehman probe

  A year and a half after Lehman Brothers' collapse, Senate Banking Committee Chairman Chris Dodd, D-Conn., is calling for a federal investigation into the "Lehman situation" and other companies that may have fudged their balance sheets, contributing t

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• USA Today

  Lehman whistle-blower warned accounting tricks may be illegal

  A Lehman Brothers whistle-blower warned his bosses that accounting gimmicks the bank used before its collapse may have been illegal, ...

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