Goldman Sachs Concludes Great Muppet Hunt: Report

The Great Muppet Hunt has concluded at Goldman Sachs.

Fox Business correspondent Charlie Gasparino, citing "people close to Goldman," reports that, after an extensive internal investigation of companywide emails, Goldman has concluded that 98 percent of the "Muppet" references were about a Muppet movie.

"Sources at Goldman also say the malicious Muppet use in emails involves name-calling among colleagues," Gasparino said on Fox Business on Wednesday. "Apparently at Goldman they call each other Muppet ... The firm finds no evidence so far to substantiate [Greg] Smith’s claims that people were talking about clients.”

Goldman's Muppet hunt started in late March, according to Reuters, one week after a former Goldman Sachs vice president, Greg Smith, penned an explosive op-ed in The New York Times accusing the firm of fostering a "toxic and destructive" environment and alleging that he had seen "five different managing directors refer to their own clients as 'muppets,' sometimes over internal e-mail."

A source close to Goldman Sachs told The Huffington Post that the firm is "constantly surveilling company email and at times conducts specific searches."

The source declined to comment on the specific Muppet-related email search that Gasparino mentioned. The source also declined to answer questions about how many hours this reported email dragnet might have taken or how much manpower was devoted to it.

Comments

[Samareth]

10:05 AM on 04/13/2012

I honestly wonder why anyone bothers to do business with these guys. If enough people stopped they would go bankrupt and the world would be better off.

[r8dj]

06:21 AM on 04/12/2012

The writer of this article and the comment screeners are the real muppets.

[Russell Masingale]

06:18 AM on 04/12/2012

shorter article: Goldman says everything is cool, feels no need to prove it is actually cool.

[r8dj]

06:14 AM on 04/12/2012

The Great Muppet Caper? The term muppet is generally accepted when referencing most of society these days. Which reminds me of an old one-liner:

What's green and smells like pork?

Kermit's finger. (And Goldman-Sachs)

[Kai-HK]

03:10 AM on 04/12/2012

I am from Arizona, we have a 4-muppet limit nowadays when we go out hunting them. It is a shame that liberals are ruining muppet hunting for everyone. BTW, the best way to hunt them is to bring the Swedish Chef as your guide....that guy is an idiot savant when it comes to sneaking up on them and he knows his way around a bear trap (but don't tell anyone since hunting muppets with a bear trap is also illegal now)

[Kai-HK]

03:06 AM on 04/12/2012

This is not surprising, I was not expecting these muppets to be able to find the usage of the word 'muppets' by the muppets that work the other muppets that own GS.

Kai

[JoeBlough]

12:22 AM on 04/12/2012

Goldman only tells you what they want you know. Everthing else is secret.

[Sgt York]

11:37 PM on 04/11/2012

You mean we could have been in the woods hunting muppets. Nothing like a good Fozzy the bear stake.

[libbogeyman]

09:35 AM on 04/12/2012

waka waka waka

[exchef100]

07:36 PM on 04/11/2012

Not even the actors in the newest Muppet movie talk about it. I smell something fishy.

[bestlol]

04:56 PM on 04/11/2012

Someone from fox news citing an anonymous gs employee who's conclusion is in line with fox opinion. This seems totally legit.....

[Jim NLN]

04:47 PM on 04/11/2012

Yeah, it was only 2%, of course they did not tell up a overall number so that 2% could be 1 email calling clients Muppets or 1,000,000.

[jkkFL]

04:33 PM on 04/11/2012

And we should believe them because......

[CaptainRenault]

04:30 PM on 04/11/2012

This proves practically nothing. Didn't Smith say that some of these "muppet" references occurred in meetings? Just b/c it wasn't in e-mails is not at all conclusive other than they didn't use the term in e-mails about clients.

Goldman IS the vampire squid, and their various predatory behaviors prove it, just as Matt Tiabbi showed.

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[J T K]

04:41 PM on 04/11/2012

I am shocked, shocked to hear that they didn't find anything.

Well... Maybe not so shocked.

[CaptainRenault]

05:00 PM on 04/11/2012

Nothing about GS shocks me anymore. These guys have the moral compass of Snidely Whiplash.

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