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Henry Paulson: May 2009

Henry Paulson

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  • A new cache of Treasury emails released by Judicial Watch reveals, inter alia, that Hank Paulson's chief-of-staff was a guy named Jim Wilkinson who was nt only clueless -- and this is, mind you, an entire month after the Lehman bailout -- as to the names of the nation's nine biggest financial institutions, he was clueless enough to put it in writing. But not so clueless that he didn't understand that the administration's decision to flow them a few hundred bil was a hit with the Dow Futures, bro! This guy makes Neel Kashkari look pretty awesome.

  • Also in the docs: Paulson used his "Texas Fed" strongman tactics with all nine big banks, couldn't get ahold of McCain to brief him; JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon arrived 45 minutes early. [Judicial Watch]

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