Rubin May Be Called to Testify to Congress on Enron !!

Reuters ^ | Susan Cornwell | Wed Jul 31, 3:20 PM ET

[Consort]

Rubin is slicker than Slick Willy. Whenever he testifies before Congress, they come out looking like fools.

[aShepard]

Trouble is, Rubin joined Citi on 10/26/99, so unless we know when the sham transactions were penned, Rubin just may be clean.

[backhoe]

More players from "The Decade of Fraud(s)" here:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/723210/posts

Liars-- and Sleaze, Incorporated... ( my files on the clintons and friends )

various links | 7-27-02 | The Heavy Equipment Guy

[michigander]

We're going to now look at what we know about any involvement
Bob Rubin had and whether calling him would be constructive.

[justshe]

Mark Foley is doing an end-run around Lieberman. He is asking the SEC to investigate Rubin, based on his phone call last year to get the Citigroup rating adjusted.

Just heard this on Brit Hume.

[waxhaw]

If anyone expects a couple of guys named Lieberman and Levin to investigate another guy by the name of Rubin concerning fraud they're in for a disappointment. It won't happen.

[RetiredArmy]

At post 24. Looks like Tom Cruise in MI1 taking off his mask!

[APBaer]

"Maybe add some bootlicking sounds."

So, ass kissing is passe?

[Fracas]

See my post #14, then look at this quote by Edward H. Fleischman, a former SEC commissioner and current New York University law school professor. He said....

"....Rubin didn't do anything wrong by making a phone call...If you were to say to me that Mr. Rubin had some kind of obligation to the Treasury Department because his past service still continued," that would be a different matter", Fleischman said.

[thucydides]

The rating agencies do not engage in "subjective" determination of credit ratings. They have detailed objective standards upon which their decisions are based. The idea that Rubin was doing some sort of public service is laughable - another example of Clintonian chutzpah. He sought to use government influence to perpetrate a fraud on the public by getting the agencies to abandon their fiduciary obligation to the public, all to facilitate the dumping of worthless securities on the public served by the agencies. So far, Rubin is the only government official or ex government official who has clearly done something wrong.

[Political Junkie Too]

This means that the Democrats have gotten their stories together and are ready to "perform" before a live audience.

-PJ

[michigander]

LOL!

You were there for the original "Caption thread".
Did you ever "find another job."?

;o)!

[MonroeDNA]

You are a good person, and a great Freeper, whoever you are.

I'm glad I saw this on the sidebar.

:)

[BOBTHENAILER]

I swear, that's what they would ask him. You must have been a Democrat staffer in another life.

[Fracas]

Exactly! I seriously doubt that Rubin will testify; and if he does, I doubt Republicans will grill him. Many (erroneously, IMO) think the public is fixated on Rubin as a person (a better looking, wealthier Greenspan). I don't think Fred Thompson et al are willing to target the guy credited with making the trains run on time.

[BOBTHENAILER]

The investigation has centered on the so-called prepays, and there is no evidence that Mr. Rubin was involved in the prepays," she said.

Whenever a DemocRAT says there is "no evidence", there most assuredly is. They have just managed to bury/shred/blackmail/erase/delete or otherwise dispose of said "evidence".

Thanks for the flag on this, I missed it earlier.

[Mo1]

I seriously doubt that Rubin will testify; and if he does, I doubt Republicans will grill him.

I'm sorry but the Senate Republicans need to get a spine and grow some balls

They can very easily get the answers without looking like they are grilling him

Rubin has his dirty hands all over this .. Gee I wonder how much stock Mr. Rubin and his buddies sold around this time ?? .. how much money did they make??

And Gee the dems didn't seem to have a problem going after the Bush Administration over this telephone call .. but Rubin shouldn't be asked about it??

Sorry ... but that is does not fly

[Itzlzha]

Joseph Lieberman:Thank you for taking time out from your busy schedule Sectary Rubin to share your expertise with the Senate. As the person who presided over and, some would say, was responsible for the longest and most prosperious era in American history, we are thankful you could testify today. We are not here to cast blame or to point fingers but to find out where we go from here. What we can do to make life better for all Americans? With that in mind, to what do you attribute the current malaise in the markets? Are the Republican tax cuts of last year responsible? Is it a mistake to have both a President and Vice-President who are so closely tied to business special interests?

May I congratulate the Senator for being able to so very clearly articulate the Senate's position, while having his TONGUE firmly planted in Robert Rubin's backside....

[LarryLied]

Rubin looks sickly on TV. Very thin and gaunt. Not a good sign at his age.

[peedee]

Hey, that looks just like one of them bug thingys in Men In Black. I knew Ole Joe reminded me of someone.