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Twelve years ago Shu Yin Lee was a young American who pretty much thought life couldn't get any better. He was a vice president at Goldman Sachs, working in Hong Kong. He had a $10,000-a-month housing allowance, a paid-for membership to a fancy club, a private Mandarin tutor coming to the office every day, and a princely investment-banking paycheck. And he was all of 27 years old. "I remember thinking once, what's wrong with this picture," he says. "And the answer was: pretty much nothing...
...Sling has media titans in its corner. Its financial backers include moguls John Malone and Charlie Ergen, who respectively run Liberty Media Corp., the Colorado-based international media and cable company with cable operations around Europe, and Echostar, the second largest satellite-television provider in the U.S. Along with Goldman Sachs, they led a $46.6 million Sling investment in January. Doubtless, competition will come. Sony is marketing a box it calls LocationFree. Other Sling rivals include Emeryville, California-based Orb and Houston-based SnapStream. Set-top boxmakers such as Scientific Atlanta, recently acquired by Cisco, are incorporating place-shifting into...
...the George W. Bush campaign headquarters in Austin, Texas, in 1999, policy director Josh Bolten was a low-key Washingtonian in a building full of brash Texans. He assembled a best-and-brightest team with résumés bristling with brand names like his own--Princeton, Stanford, Goldman Sachs. "He used to brag that he had all these Supreme Court clerks from Harvard working for him," recalled a campaign veteran. Bolten was happy to let others preen in meetings while he waited to make a killer point at the end. He has thrived by showing, very quietly, that...
Schmukler said yesterday that Plotkin had been suspended from the company. Goldman Sachs spokeswoman Andrea Raphael declined to comment...
Eugene M. Plotkin ’00, an associate in Goldman Sachs’ bond research department, and David Pajcin, a former Goldman Sachs bond analyst, have been charged with illicitly soliciting information on Wall Street deals from an analyst and recruiting an individual to leak copies of a business news magazine...