The Latest Scandal: Goldman, Fed Employees Busted For Illegally Sharing Confidential Information

On the morning of Friday, September 26, in addition to the shocking news of Bill Gross’ departure from Pimco, the world was just as shocked, or not as the case was for many, that a former NY Fed staffer, Carmen Segarra, who had been previously fired for suggesting that Goldman Sachs has an undue influence on the NY Fed and gets a preferential treatment (certainly as a result of NY Fed’s president Bill Dudley being working previously at Goldman Sachs), had released nearly 50 hours of tapes confirming her allegations: that the NY Fed was nothing but a branch of the bank that controls every central bank. The full details were presented in “How Goldman Controls The New York Fed: 47.5 Hours Of “The Secret Goldman Sachs Tapes” Explain.”
Ironically it was on that very day that another recent Goldman hire from the NY Fed – a classic case of, as the NY Times puts it, the “revolving door, the symbolic portal that connects financial regulators to Wall Street” – a 29-year-old former New York Fed regulator named Rohit Bansal, got into hot water after something “shocking” was revealed: he had an inside source at the NY Fed who was providing him with illegal, confidential information on a regular basis.

This post was published at Zero Hedge on 11/20/2014.