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user-inactivated  ·  3491 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Inside the New York Fed: Secret Recordings and a Culture Clash

    One of the expert examiners it chose was Carmen Segarra.

    Segarra appeared to be exactly what Beim ordered. Passionate and direct, schooled in the Ivy League and at the Sorbonne, she was a lawyer with more than 13 years of experience in compliance – the specialty of helping banks satisfy rules and regulations. The New York Fed placed her inside one of the biggest and, at the time, most controversial banks in the country, Goldman Sachs.

    It did not go well. She was fired after only seven months.

    As ProPublica reported last year, Segarra sued the New York Fed and her bosses, claiming she was retaliated against for refusing to back down from a negative finding about Goldman Sachs. A judge threw out the case this year without ruling on the merits, saying the facts didn't fit the statute under which she sued.

From r/economics:

The judge that threw out the case was in fact married (!) to one of Goldman's lawyers.