Excerpts from the report are below:
On whether former Goldman Sachs employee Greg Smith fact-checked his book
'The people at Goldman said he’s done no fact checking. He’s not come back to them and said can you respond to X, Y and Z, which is kind of interesting. Usually when you do these kind of books that describe a corporate culture and have specific anecdotes you should really go back and check those with the people who you are writing about. Which makes me think this is going to be much more of Greg Smith’s meanderings about what’s wrong with Goldman, so that’s what Goldman is worried about. This is coming out at a bad time for them'.
On why some publishers dropped out early
'Some of the publishers started dropping out early because he was dead serious about having a whole chapter or a couple chapters on how to make Wall Street a better place. And the last thing the publishers wanted was Greg Smith - this is a mid-level employee - how he thinks Wall Street could be a better place'.
Source: FOX Business Network
In the meantime, The New York Times reports that a former Goldman Sachs programmer charged a second time with stealing valuable computer code from the investment bank is fighting back, demanding that his former employer cover his mounting legal fees.
On Tuesday, the programmer, Sergey Aleynikov, sued Goldman in Federal District Court in New Jersey. He wants the financial firm to pay for the nearly $2.4m in costs he has racked up defending himself in both an overturned federal case and a pending state proceeding by the Manhattan district attorney.
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