Goldman Sachs bankers like trekking into the wilderness of public service, but once they go, they don’t come home. An executive who becomes a senator, an intelligence adviser, a deputy secretary of state, a White House chief of staff or a Treasury secretary hardly ever returns to Wall Street. And the second act in finance, Read More
When State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer sat down to breakfast with storied financial consultant Felix G. Rohatyn at the Regency this January, he was so eager to pick his guest’s brain—and so intensely solicitous—that he barely had time to touch the food on his plate.
He needn’t have worried.
“I said to him, ‘Look, you Read More
When State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer sat down to breakfast with storied financial consultant Felix G. Rohatyn at the Regency this January, he was so eager to pick his guest’s brain—and so intensely solicitous—that he barely had time to touch the food on his plate.
He needn’t have worried.
“I said to him, ‘Look, Read More
Remember the Eliot Spitzer-John Whitehead pissing match that was all that was all over the New York Post just three months ago? Spitzer apparently apologized (sort of), at least to the businessmen who gathered in Felix Rohatyn’s living room. In this week’s Observer, Jason Horowitz relates the conversation:
“There was this big Read MoreThe 84-year-old John Whitehead, a World War II veteran and former Goldman Sachs head, resigned as chairman of the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation and of the World Trade Center Memorial Foundation.
“Four-and-a-half years is a long time for a supposedly retired person of advanced age and I hope to have more advanced age to Read More
I still don’t have a clear explanation as to why Spitzer foe John Whitehead gave $10,000 to a Democrat, Denise O’Donnell, promising to “make sure that we continue the Elliot Spitzer tradition of strong, professional and non-political leadership in the Attorney General’s office.”
But O’Donnell’s campaign manager (and son) Jack offered a partial explanation. Read More
The ultimate beneficiary of Governor Pataki’s $80 million gesture to Ground Zero seems to be Frank Gehry’s performing arts center, which had been put on the back burner because of its enormous price tag (rumored at more than $400 million).
Over on The Observer’s Real Estate site Matt Schuerman picked up a little dissonance in John Whitehead’s account of being threatened last spring by Eliot Spitzer.
Whitehead’s explosive Wall Street Journal piece was, Whitehead writes in the piece, occasioned by “rumors in the media” about his confrontation with Spitzer. Problem is, Read More
What’s odd about state Attorney General Eliot Spitzer’s alleged threat to former Goldman Sachs Co-Chairman John Whitehead (“You will pay dearly for what you have done”) is how it ever came into the public eye. Whitehead wrote an op-ed in April denouncing Spitzer’s public prosecution of A.I.G. chief Hank Greenberg. Then the alleged threatening phone Read More
The Newsday photo desk is developing a reputation for its sense of humor.
Not long ago, the paper’s images suggested that the eminent banker John Whitehead was running for an East New York City Council seat.
And today, next to this story on page four, they seem to have gotten Read More
