Geithner ‘burned billions’ on CIT

Published November 2, 2009 5:00am ET



Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner is directly to blame for taxpayers’ loss of $2.3 billion in the CIT bailout, says professor William Black of the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law and a former federal bank regulator. 

“We put ourselves on the hook in a completely inept way where we lose first. We lose entirely as the taxpayers.”

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