Larry “blow up the World Trade Center for Israel” Silverstein is light-years beyond Adler.   Larry Silverstein, you may recall, is a reputed mobster who allegedly got his start in the sex services business and then oozed into real estate. Two months before 9/11, Silverstein finalized his 100-year-lease on the white elephant, condemned-for-asbestos World [...]

May 26 (Bloomberg) — www.bloomberg.com Credit Suisse Group AG, Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc each borrowed at least $30 billion in 2008 from a Federal Reserve emergency lending program whose details weren’t revealed to shareholders, members of Congress or the public. The $80 billion initiative, called single-tranche open-market operations, [...]

News Sources wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerpt ABC News Report: Banks to pay billions in wake of BofA dealDayton Business JournalOther big banks may face billions of dollars in potential settlements over mortgage claims in the wake of Bank of America’s $8.5 billion settlement deal, according to a report by [...]