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Did Bernanke and Paulson commit bank fraud?(Inside Track)(former Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke)
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New revelations from the New York State Attorney General's Office have all but proven that Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and former Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson committed bank fraud crimes in the case of the Merrill Lynch/Bank of America merger that took place last year. New York State Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo revealed that Paulson and Bernanke illegally suppressed adverse financial data on the merger and threatened to replace the Bank of America CEO and board of directors if the company backed out of the Merrill Lynch merger. "Secretary Paulson has informed us that he made the threat at the request of Chairman Bernanke," Cuomo wrote in an April 23 letter to Congress.
The two companies signed a tentative merger agreement September 15, 2008, but the agreement included a "Material Adverse Change" (MAC) clause that would allow Bank of America (BofA) to escape the merger if BofA financial officers found undisclosed financial information that would hurt BofA. Bank of America shareholders approved the agreement with the MAC clause December 5, 2008. The final merger was to take place January 1, 2009.
But on December 14, BofA financial officers informed CEO Kenneth Lewis that Merrill Lynch's quarterly losses would be $3 billion more than expected (the $9 billion in expected losses ended up being a $15 billion loss--a $6 billion ...
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