He concentrated instead on the third and fourth items on that list, and spent most of his time on Goldman's shorting of, as he kept repeating, "shitty" securities.
Mr. Larry gave me a number to add on WhatsApp, which I quickly searched turns out the Illuminati has some pretty shitty information security—and was able to find that the number was from Nigeria.
Levin repeatedly highlighted, word-for-word, an internal Goldman e-mail which labeled a Goldman-backed security a "shitty deal".
Investors sold deals to their clients whom they thought were "shitty," betting against those securities without telling their clients.
Indeed, one of the more memorable images from a high-profile U.S. Senate committee hearing last year into financial crisis, was Sen. Carl Levin repeatedly saying that a Goldman Sachs Group executive had written an email calling one of the investment bank's subprime-mortgage backed securities, "one shitty deal".
A few weeks before the Israeli bank bought a slice of Timberwolf, Thomas Montag, a top Goldman executive, referred to the security as "one shitty deal," according to an internal email obtained by Senate investigators.
Everyone bitches about how hard it is to be a skateboarder in New York--from the shitty winters to the overzealous security guards to the crusty spots, there's a symphony of microscopic violins playing all across this great city.
Knowing I wouldn't be able to get through to see him without a boarding pass, I used my shitty broken Indonesian and begged security to let me through the first gate under the condition that I would return with a bribe.
The besieged Wall Street bank Goldman Sachs, which is fighting a $1bn£650m0m) fraud prosecution, faced hours of attacks by angry lawmakers for putting its own profits before clients' interests as it dispensed complex mortgage-backed securities branded as "shitty" and as "crap pools" by its own traders.
No security guard ever caught me, and those big shops probably have some shitty tax evasion scheme anyway, so it felt like an act of political rebellion.
