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Page 215 It listed $613
billion www.numerix.com/uploads/files/InTheNews/SRP_Lehman_Unwind.pdf.
Chapter 20 Damned Flood?
Page 219 JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon The letter was posted on the Internet on October
17, 2009, by the blog ZeroHedge under the headline "A Rare Glimpse Inside the Fed's
Discount Window Courtesy of the Brewing Lehman-Barclays Scandal":
www.zerohedge.com/article/rare-glimpse-feds-discount-window-courtesy-brewinglehman-barclays-scandal.
Page 221 He saved more than 10,000 jobs "Tension Simmers at Nomura as Lehman
Bonuses Loom," New York Times, March 27, 2009.
Page 226 Within a year Lloyd Blankfein John Arlidge, "I' m Doing 'God's Work': Meet
Mr. Goldman Sachs," Times of London, November 8, 2009.
Chapter 21 Closing the Books
Page 230 In early April 2009 Susanne Craig, "Lehman Brothers' Dick Fuld has a New
Gig," Wall Street Journal, April 3, 2009.
Page 230 Reportedly, he sold his seven-acre estate Sushil Cheema, Wall Street Journal,
November 13, 2009, http://blogs.wsj.com/developments/2009/11/13/friday-diversion-axlroses-house-sells-again-connie-and-maury-buy/ .
Page 231 "It was clear in the 24 hours Katie Benner, "I Was Lucky to Get Out," Fortune,
September 26, 2008.
Page 232 By November 2009, the cost Linda Sandler, "Lehman Bankruptcy Advisers Get
$535.5 Million," Bloomberg, December 14, 2009.
Page 232 But by September 2009, he reported "Scaling Mount Lehman," Wall Street
Journal, September 15, 2009.
Page 233 In October the Journal revealed Jeffrey McCracken and Mike Spector, "Fed
Draws Court's Eyes in Lehman Bankruptcy," Wall Street Journal, October 5, 2009.
Page 233 By November creditors had filed Christopher Scinta and Linda Sandler,
"Claims Against Lehman Could Hit $1 Trillion, CEO Says," Bloomberg, November 19,
2009.
Page 233 To the astonishment of many In Re: Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. et al.,
Southern District of New York, Case 08-135555, Creditor 1000230602.
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Acknowledgments
This is my first book. As I wrote in the Prologue, I had no idea when I started it that the
material I would find would make this story so extraordinarily compelling and such a
delight to research and tell.
I also had no idea of what it takes to write a book. I had no idea of the hours required, not
just mine but other people's time; of the vast number of patient interviewees who
sometimes were kind enough to put up with a second or even third grilling, and also what
a nuisance a book is to the people in your immediate orbit.
Where to begin the thanks?
First, to the men and women of Lehman for sharing your stories, some of them funny,
some of them tragic, and in some cases