"We had always made it clear that we were prepared to tear up contracts, it just had to be at the right price," Lucas van Praag, a spokesman for Goldman Sachs in New York, said in an interview. .... A home video by Hank Paulson; What I Did On My Autumn Vacation? Don't be absurd. The pieces are there and some are not there. Some are there through induction and some are plain as day. We have no choice but to try to put it back together as logically as we can. ...
Financial Advisor logo. CONFERENCES. Real Estate Conference 2011 ? Alternative Investment Conference ? Inside ETF Conference ... all former SAC traders. Schimel is the brother-in-law of SAC's founder, Steven A. Cohen. Loweth left Level Global this year. Lucas van Praag, a spokesman for New York-based Goldman Sachs, didn't immediately respond to a call and e-mail seeking comment. Jonathan Gasthalter, a spokesman for Stamford-based SAC, declined to comment. ...
Lucas van Praag, a Goldman spokesman, said senior executives were not involved in approving the Abacus deals. He said the executives had sought to balance Goldman's positive bets on the mortgage market, rather than take an overall negative view. ... Another handled commercial real estate. Goldman in 2006 alone underwrote $26 billion of bundled mortgage securities known as collateralized debt obligations, according to Dealogic, a financial data provider. ...
