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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