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Goldman Sachs Responds To The New York Times

Janet Tavakoli | Posted 11.25.2009 | Business


Janet Tavakoli

Did Goldman Sachs dissemble and equivocate in its responses to the New York Times?

TARP Fraud Probes Have Tripled Since April, Says Watchdog

Huffington Post | Marcus Baram | Posted 11.13.2009 | Business


The watchdog charged with policing the massive government bailout says that he's conducting 65 investigations of possible fraud in the program, more t...

Neil Barofsky, TARP Watchdog: Bailout Will 'Almost Certainly' Result In Loss For Taxpayers

bloomberg.com | Robert Schmidt | Posted 11.12.2009 | Business


Nov. 12 (Bloomberg) -- Neil Barofsky, the federal watchdog for the $700 billion financial industry bailout, said the program will "almost certainly" r...

TARP Watchdog's Report: Treasury Misled Public On Bailouts

AP | MARTIN CRUTSINGER | Posted 10.05.2009 | Business


WASHINGTON — The credibility of the government's $700 billion financial rescue program was damaged by claims a year ago that all of the initial bank...

Elizabeth Warren: "Until We Have A Credible Liquidation Threat, We Don't Have Capitalism In America" (VIDEO)

Posted 11.14.2009 | Business


TARP watchog Elizabeth Warren has been critical of how the bank bailouts have been handled, but in an interview with MSNBC's Dylan Ratigan Monday morn...

Treasury Retreats From Standoff With TARP Watchdog

The Wall Street Journal | EVAN PEREZ and DEBORAH SOLOMON | Posted 10.18.2009 | Business


The Treasury Department backed away from a standoff over the independence of the special government watchdog appointed to scrutinize how last year's $...

TARP Watchdog Raids 2 Banks

CNN | Jennifer Liberto | Posted 09.03.2009 | Business


Federal agents in Florida on Monday raided two banks that last week scuttled a deal that would have qualified one of them for federal bailout funds. ...

Sam Stein

TARP Watchdog To Deliver Harsh Testimony On Treasury's Lack Of Transparency

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 08.20.2009 | Politics


Neil Barofsky, the special inspector general for the Troubled Asset Relief Program (SIGTARP) is set to deliver much anticipated testimony on Tuesday b...

TARP Watchdog: US Needs New Agency To Protect Consumers From Banks' "Tricks And Traps"

Reuters | Posted 07.24.2009 | Politics


WASHINGTON - The outspoken head of a U.S. Congressional watchdog panel will strongly urge lawmakers on Wednesday to set up a new government agency to ...

Elizabeth Warren's Relationship With The Treasury Is "Rocky"

Time | Sheelah Kolhatkar | Posted 07.14.2009 | Business


Don't let my politeness fool you," says Elizabeth Warren. The Harvard Law professor and head of the congressional panel monitoring the bank bailout ha...

TARP Watchdog: Stress Tests Relied On Too Rosy A Scenario

AP | ANNE FLAHERTY | Posted 07.09.2009 | Business


WASHINGTON — A government test of whether 19 major banks could survive a further downturn in the economy may have relied on too rosy a scenario ...

Bailout Corruption: Feds Open 20 Criminal Probes Into Fraud, Insider Trading

Los Angeles Times | Ralph Vartabedian and Tom Hamburger | Posted 05.21.2009 | Business


Reporting from Washington and Los Angeles -- In the first major disclosure of corruption in the $750-billion financial bailout program, federal invest...

Bailout Watchdog Warns Of Lack Of Oversight, Potential For Fraud

New York Times | EDMUND L. ANDREWS | Posted 05.21.2009 | Politics


WASHINGTON -- The Treasury Department's most ambitious plans to rescue troubled banks -- partnerships between the government and private investors, ba...

TARP Watchdog Finally Gets Expanded Authority

Project On Government Oversight | Posted 04.25.2009 | Home


After months of waiting, Neil Barofsky, the Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program (SIGTARP), will finally be given the resou...