Goldman Subpoenaed by FCIC after Sending Billion Pages of "Rubbish" to Panel

The Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission (FCIC) is annoyed at the prospect of wading through billions of pages of "rubbish" that Goldman sent in response to an inquiry.

Here's the result: Goldman Subpoenaed by FCIC After Panel Says Firm Hindered Probe

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. was subpoenaed by the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission after panel members said the most profitable firm in Wall Street history engaged in a document “dump” to hinder a probe.

Goldman Sachs sent more than a billion pages of documents, FCIC Vice Chairman Bill Thomas said on a conference call with reporters today.

“We did not ask them to pull up a dump truck to our offices and dump a bunch of rubbish,” said Angelides, 56, who previously served as California’s treasurer. “This has been a very deliberate effort over time to run out the clock.”

Thomas said the panel’s requests to Goldman Sachs go back “several months.” Information the firm turned over didn’t comply with what was asked for and has put FCIC investigators in the position of “searching through the haystack for the needle,” he said.

“We expect them to provide us with the needle,” he said.

Federal prosecutors in New York are also investigating transactions by Goldman Sachs to determine whether to bring charges, people familiar with the matter said April 29. The company hasn’t been accused of criminal misconduct.

Finra Finds "Widespread Use Of High-Speed Algorithmic Trading" Was Likely Cause For Flash Crash

Zerohedge reports Finra Finds "Widespread Use Of High-Speed Algorithmic Trading" Was Likely Cause For Flash Crash

From Reuters: "Regulators probing the mysterious May 6 "flash crash" in the stock market are unlikely to find a single cause, though the widespread use of high-speed algorithmic trading was in general likely behind it, the head of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority said on Monday. "We won't stop until we finish the analysis. But I think the answer is there is unlikely to be a single cause," Finra CEO Rick Ketchum told Reuters on the sidelines of a conference here. "It is much more likely to be a proliferation of algorithmic trading that was all subject to the same triggers and didn't have the same controls."

Unfortunately I cannot find any external reference to that quote from Reuters or anywhere else. The only reference I can find trace back to Zero Hedge.

If FINRA has indeed determined that high-speed trading is a problem, and in response kills the practice, it will eat into profits at Goldman.

Mish

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