Watchdog Says Treasury and Fed Knew Bailed-Out Banks Were Not 'Healthy'

The Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve lied to the American public last fall when they said that the first nine banks to receive government bailout funds were healthy, a government watchdog states in a new report released today. Full Story »

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Chris Finnie
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by Chris Finnie - Oct. 5, 2009

Since the first two words in TARP are "troubled asset," and everybody has called that money "bailouts," I'd have thought most people assumed it was given to banks that were in trouble. So I'm not even sure why this merited a story.

The Bush administration wasn't transparent and truthful? Stop the presses! A real shocker. Almost as much breaking news as the linked story about allegations of financial bribery in Congress. Who would have ever thought such a thing?

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