{"id":1837,"date":"2014-11-20T06:52:50","date_gmt":"2014-11-20T11:52:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=1837"},"modified":"2014-11-20T06:52:50","modified_gmt":"2014-11-20T11:52:50","slug":"new-scrutiny-of-goldmans-ties-to-the-new-york-fed-after-a-leak-nytimes-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=1837","title":{"rendered":"New Scrutiny of Goldman&#8217;s Ties to the New York Fed After a Leak &#8211; NYTimes.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dealbook.nytimes.com\/2014\/11\/19\/rising-scrutiny-as-banks-hire-from-the-fed\/?hp&amp;action=click&amp;pgtype=Homepage&amp;module=first-column-region&amp;region=top-news&amp;WT.nav=top-news&amp;_r=0\">New Scrutiny of Goldman&#8217;s Ties to the New York Fed After a Leak &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.4375rem; font-weight: 400; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; max-width: 540px; margin: 0px 0px 1em 0px;\">From his desk in Lower Manhattan, a banker at Goldman Sachs thumbed through confidential documents \u2014 courtesy of a source inside the United States government.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.4375rem; font-weight: 400; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; max-width: 540px; margin: 0px 0px 1em 0px;\">The banker came to Goldman through the so-called revolving door, the symbolic portal that connects financial regulators to Wall Street. He joined in July after spending seven years as a regulator at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the government\u2019s front line in overseeing the financial industry. He received the confidential information, lawyers briefed on the matter suspect, from a former colleague who was still working at the New York Fed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.4375rem; font-weight: 400; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; max-width: 540px; margin: 0px 0px 1em 0px;\">The previously unreported leak, recounted in interviews with the lawyers briefed on the matter who spoke anonymously because the episode is not public, illustrates the blurred lines between Wall Street and the government \u2014 and the potential conflicts of interest that can result. When Goldman hired the former New York Fed regulator, who is 29, it assigned him to advise the same type of banks that he once policed. And the banker obtained confidential information, along with several publicly available facts, in the course of assignments from his bosses at Goldman, the lawyers said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.4375rem; font-weight: 400; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; max-width: 540px; margin: 0px 0px 1em 0px;\">The information provided Goldman a window into the New York Fed\u2019s private insights, the lawyers said, including details about at least one of Goldman\u2019s clients, a midsize bank regulated by the Fed. Although it is unclear how Goldman bankers used the information, if at all, the confidential details could have helped them advise the client.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.4375rem; font-weight: 400; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; max-width: 540px; margin: 0px 0px 1em 0px;\">&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Scrutiny of Goldman&#8217;s Ties to the New York Fed After a Leak &#8211; NYTimes.com. From his desk in Lower Manhattan, a banker at Goldman Sachs thumbed through confidential documents \u2014 courtesy of a source inside the United States government. 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