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A Goldman Sachs executive has been named to head the division of the Securities and Exchange Commission that oversees mutual funds and investment advisers.
The agency said Tuesday that Eileen Rominger will become director of investment management
She worked for 11 years at Goldman Sachs Asset Management, most recently as its global chief investment officer.
Prior to that, Rominger worked at Oppenheimer Capital. She has a degree in English from Fairfield University and an MBA in finance from t
Goldman Sachs confirmed today that it was in talks to acquire the U.S. Department of the Treasury.
According to Goldman spokesperson Jonathan Hestron, the merger between Goldman and the Treasury Department is "a good fit" because "they're in the business of printing money and so are we."
The government on Friday accused Wall Street's most powerful firm of fraud, saying Goldman Sachs & Co. sold mortgage investments without telling the buyers that the securities were crafted with input from a client who was betting on them to fail.
The SEC said Paulson paid Goldman roughly $15 million in 2007 to devise an investment tied to mortgage-related securities that the hedge fund viewed as likely to decline in value. Separately, Paulson took out a form of insurance that allowed it to make a huge profit when those securities' value plunged.