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38. It's Jack Lew

Wed Jan 9, 2013, 11:07 AM

Jan 2013

In June 2006, Lew was named chief operating officer of Citigroup's Alternative Investments unit, a proprietary trading group. The unit he oversaw invested in a hedge fund "that bet on the housing market to collapse."

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1/9/13 Obama To Appoint Jack Lew As Treasury Secretary Tomorrow, Bloomberg Reports
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-01-09/obama-appoint-jack-lew-treasury-secretary-tomorrow-bloomberg-reports

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