Topic: Neil Barofsky
President Obama in his State of the Union address on Tuesday proposed a plan that would allow every "responsible homeowner" a chance to save $3,000...
David Leonhardt has managed to get a quite astonishing on-the-record quote from Tim Geithner: . . "The central paradox of financial crises,"...
Shahien Nasiripour has an update on the talks between the big banks and the state attorneys general, with some rather worrying news: Under the...
Top lawmakers from the Senate Banking Committee have asked the Obama administration to quickly replace the outgoing Wall Street bailout watchdog....
The Committee on Oversight and Government Reform held hearings yesterday to discuss the impacts of the bank bailouts and whether Dodd-Frank will...
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The top government auditor for bailouts of U.S. financial firms and automakers on Monday resigned his position as the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program winds down.Neil Barofsky said in a resignation letter to President Barack Obama that ...
Assistant United States Attorney Neil Barofsky serves as a Special Inspector General for the U.S. Treasury Department in charge of overseeing the Troubled Assets Relief Program (TARP) . Bailout Cop Busy on the Beat In April of 2009, Barofsky told Congress his ...
THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION HARPS on the need to make Wall Street accountable through better oversight and more transparent reporting. Yet the White House blew its stack last week when an independent review asserted that its $700 billion bailout of Wall Street lacked ...
Think the Troubled Asset Relief Program has performed poorly? Though he believes the Troubled Asset Relief Program has helped both Wall Street and Main Street - which is not to say that it's helped the overall economy - Treasury Department Special Inspector General ...