Sen. Orrin Hatch seemed to imply on Fox News today that the administration may have pushed for a civil suit against Goldman Sachs to be filed at a time that benefited Democrats’ financial reform push, saying that “the timing is very suspect.”
“This whole Goldman Sachs thing, isn’t that a little odd that all of a sudden, right at the height of this legislative period, we suddenly have the SEC filing suit against Goldman Sachs?” Hatch asked.
“I think the timing is very suspect,” he said.
He continued:
There’s something terribly wrong here and I don’t know what it is, but to do that right at this particular time, yknow, the timing is very suspect in my eyes.
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On Charlie Rose last night, White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel said the White House heard about the Goldman civil fraud lawsuit when everyone else did — “when it hit the news.”
“Nobody at the White House knew anything ahead of anybody else.”
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