Lehman Bankruptcy

Lehman Asks U.S. Judge For $500 Million Barclays Payback

Posted 11.07.2011

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NEW YORK (Nick Brown) - Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc -- whose North American business was taken over by Barclays Plc in 2008 -- has asked a U.S. j...

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Lehman Brother Sets Stage For End Of Biggest U.S. Bankruptcy

Posted 08.29.2011

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NEW YORK (Caroline Humer and Jonathan Stempel) - Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc filed a new $65 billion bankruptcy liquidation plan that it said has...

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Goldman Sachs, Other Banks Propose Plan To Restructure Lehman Brothers

Posted 06.25.2011

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A group of banks including Goldman Sachs (GS.N) and Morgan Stanley (MS.N) has filed a plan to restructure Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc that would ...

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Lehman Brothers Tricked Clients With 'Goat Poo' Assets, Lawsuit Says

Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW YORK (By Caroline Humer) - Lehman Brothers and Barclays deceived JPMorgan Chase & Co with bad assets that the failed investment bank's own employ...

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Lehman's Bankruptcy Advisers Make $1.3 Million Per Day

The Huffington Post | William Alden | Posted 05.25.2011

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More than two years after it collapsed in the biggest bankruptcy in U.S. history, Lehman Brothers is still shelling out money. The firm's total bankr...

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Bernanke: Fed Had No Idea About Lehman's 'Repo 105' Accounting Gimmick

AP | ALAN ZIBEL | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — The chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday pledged better oversight of the nation's largest banks after crit...

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New York Fed Warehousing Junk Loans On Its Books: Examiner's Report

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.25.2011

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As Lehman Brothers careened toward bankruptcy in 2008, the New York Federal Reserve Bank came to its rescue, sopping up junk loans that the investment...

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Lehman Brothers Scandal: Blogs Beat The Mainstream Press On The Key Details

cjr.org | Ryan Chittum | Posted 05.25.2011

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Look, I know that Lehman collapsed a year and a half ago, but this is a major story -- one that finally gets awfully close to putting the crimes in th...

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Lehman Bankrutpcy: 'Repo 105,' Bank's 'Accounting Gimick,' Was Like 'A Drug,' Emails Show

Huffington Post | Ryan McCarthy | Posted 05.25.2011

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** UPDATE: Scroll down to see Dylan Ratigan's segment ** The arcane "accounting gimmick" employed by Lehman Brothers as the firm failed in 2007 and...

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Lehman Bankruptcy Report: Top Officials Manipulated Balance Sheets, JPMorgan And Citi Contributed To Collapse

HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 05.25.2011

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Scroll down to read the first part of the report The examiner in charge of investigating the collapse of venerable Wall Street investment house Lehma...

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Former Lehman President Wants $233M In Back Pay

WSJ | Patrick Fitzgerald | Posted 05.25.2011

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Joseph Gregory, Lehman's former president. Gregory, once second in command at the investment bank, has filed a claim against Lehman's bankruptcy estat...

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Lehman CEO Fuld To Be Terminated Without Golden Parachute

New York Times | Posted 05.25.2011

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The chief executive of the failed Lehman Brothers, Richard S. Fuld Jr., will be "terminated" by the investment firm without any bonus, a lawyer for Le...

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Stiglitz: The Fall of Wall Street Is to Market Fundamentalism What the Fall of the Berlin Wall Was to Communism

Nathan Gardels | Posted 05.25.2011

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"Obama's diagnosis that our financial sector is in desperate shape is correct. And if it is in desperate shape, that means our economy is in desperate shape."

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Asian stock markets tumble after Wall Street falls

AP | TOMOKO A. HOSAKA | Posted 05.25.2011

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TOKYO — The steep decline in U.S. stocks sent Asian stock markets tumbling sharply Tuesday as investors were rattled by concerns over an expandi...

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In a Gloomy Economy, Signs of Light

Robert Reed | Posted 05.25.2011

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At a time when the stock market is plunging and a once-venerable Wall Street investment house is going bankrupt, it may seem like all is lost. Not true. In fact, amid the carnage, some examples have emerged that stir --shall we say--a cautious optimism about getting free of this mess.

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