Topic: Tim Geithner

December 9, 2009

Geithner announces TARP extension … the day after Obama said he would wind it down

One day after President Obama told the Brookings Institution that he planned to “wind down” the Troubled Asset Relief Program, his Treasury secretary told Congress the administration plans to extend the program into next fall.

January 27, 2009

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner picked a former Goldman Sachs lobbyist as his chief of staff.

Geithner taps Goldman Sachs lobbyist as his chief of staff

Should we even take the no-lobbyist rules seriously?

January 13, 2009

Nominating a tax cheat to head the Treasury Department

Barack Obama’s choice for Treasury secretary, Tim Geithner, didn’t pay $34,000 in taxes and hired an illegal immigrant as a house keeper.

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