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...Neill deputy, Peter Fisher, got similar calls from Enron's president and from Robert Rubin, the former Treasury Secretary who now serves as a top executive at Citigroup, which had at least $800 million in exposure to Enron through loans and insurance policies. Fisher-who had helped organize the LTCM bailout-judged that Enron's slide didn't pose the same dangers to the financial system and advised O'Neill against any bailout or intervention with lenders or credit-rating agencies...
...they get at least a little cover from the company's campaign contributions to prominent Democrats, such as Senate Energy Committee Chairman Jeff Bingaman and Louisiana Senator John Breaux. Enron and its top officials have hired the well-known Democratic lawyers Robert Bennett and David Boies. And Bob Rubin, the Democrats' high priest of economics and finance, was caught fishing-albeit tentatively by all accounts-for Treasury intervention on Enron's behalf...
...considering Summers to be the University’s 27th president, Harvard’s search committee paid close attention to the question of his style. The powerful group was ultimately reassured on that point by Summers’ predecessor, former Treasury Secretary Robert E. Rubin ’60, who told them that his protege was a mellowed...
...RUBIN His nameplate is gone from the office of the Treasury Secretary, but in some respects, Rubin, 63, never really left. Now a top executive at CITIGROUP, the man who steered President Clinton through financial crises to the nation's longest boom gets invited to private meetings of top congressional leaders from which the current Treasury Secretary is excluded. Since Sept. 11, Rubin has helped Congress shape a stimulus package. He even testified alongside Alan Greenspan when the Fed chief delivered his damage assessment to a closed session of the Finance Committee...
...months, this country has needed leadership in many realms, and luckily we have gotten that in the political realm. But economically we are hurting, and there’s nobody leading us to a cure. In fact, over the summer, it seemed like the former treasury secretary, Robert E. Rubin ’60, spoke with Congress more times than you did, Mr. Secretary...