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That may be why Skilling hired him in 1990 from Continental Illinois, a Chicago thrift that failed in the mid-'80s savings-and-loan bust. Fastow had a skill Skilling needed; he did asset "securitization," a means for banks to sell off risk in the form of securities backed by mortgages or other obligations...
...friend and not just a collaborator. I really look forward to watching her career grow, and her grow into her career,” he gushes. “I’m pushing Nancy to become a U.S. Senator because that encompasses about every type of skill one can imagine, and she has all of them. She is certainly one to watch...
...wholly understand how." Her boss in Dublin, Allied Irish chief executive Michael Buckley, suggested that no controls could hold back a trader determined to commit fraud. "You have a wonderful alarm system in your house," he said, "but someone who has a reasonable amount of skill and a certain amount of knowledge about what happens inside the house can still find a way to break...
...press since he staked out a nonviolent Irish nationalism at the start of the Troubles. Durkan, the youngest of seven children raised on a police widow's pension, was Hume's detail man for two decades, turning the great leader's big but fuzzy visions into political reality. His skill at listening and bridging divides won him respect, and when Hume finally stepped down, Durkan ran unopposed (he joked that he was the "heir abhorrent"). Perversely, his very qualities of earnest decency may now be an electoral liability. The politicians who have won the most ink and plaudits...
...That may be why Skilling hired him in 1990 from Continental Illinois, a Chicago thrift that failed in the mid-'80s savings-and-loan bust. Fastow had a skill Skilling needed; he did asset "securitization," a means for banks to sell off risk in the form of securities backed by mortgages or other obligations...