If this doesn’t convince you that the Timothy Geithner knew about the securities shenanigans that were going on at Lehman, than I don’t know what
will.
Keep in mind, that Geithner ran Lehman through 3 “stress tests” prior to bankruptcy; all of which Lehman failed, and yet, nothing was done. Anton
R. Valukas–the examiner who wrote the 2,200 page investigative-report which was released on Thursday– has provided plenty of information detailing
Lehman’s “materially misleading” accounting and “actionable balance sheet manipulation.”
In other words, they cooked the books.
Good video. Basically compares Lehman Brothers to Enron, with the stakes being much higher.
They do a good job of describing how Lehman Brothers were able to perpetuate their accounting fraud.
Lehman CFO's knew full well about the fraud, and signed off on their fraudulent quarterly reports.
Eves Smith at Naked Capitalism sums up what was going on like this:
“Quite a few observers… have been stunned and frustrated at the refusal to investigate what was almost certain accounting fraud at Lehman. ….The
unraveling isn’t merely implicating Fuld (Lehman CEO) and his recent succession of CFOs, or its accounting firm, Ernst & Young, as might be
expected. It also emerges that the NY Fed, and thus Timothy Geithner, were at a minimum massively derelict in the performance of their duties, and may
well be culpable in aiding and abetting Lehman in accounting fraud and Sarbox violations….
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