Ron Swanson
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FWIW...so does that mean chase has or has not been fined over $35 billion during his tenure?
did investors lose over $6 billion because of actions by an individual trader?
did chase get hit for rigging markets and buy influence of party officials in china?
I worked for JPM and one of the guys in our group ran a scheme to game the electrical markets in California. He basically found a loophole in the system, so it wasn’t technically illegal, but it was unethical for sure. He got caught and our group got fined a ton of money.
Jamie had no way of knowing what was going and can’t be held accountable for that. It was one quant nerd who hatched the scheme and a trader who pulled it off IIRC.
Also, in regards to your post about JPM taking bailout money. I might have some of my facts wrong here, but I believe all of the major banks were forced to take the money. JPM didn’t need it and paid it back quickly. Again, I could be wrong about that, but that’s the way I remember hearing it back then.
I never met Jamie, but I was always under the impression that he was one of the good ones (at least as far as giant banking CEO’s go). Again, could be wrong about that too.