• 22 Jan 2009 at 11:44 AM

Live-Blogging Thain’s Fate

By Equity Private

As previously mentioned, Ken Lewis is supposed to be holding an “emergency” meeting right now to discuss John Thain’s future, or lack thereof, at Bank of Amerillwide. As recently as an hour ago, most of you probably thought the meat of the conversation would be the matter of Thain selling Lewis a heaping pile of garbage. NO LONGER. Per the game changing bomb dropped by CNBC’s Senior Interior Decorator Charlie Gasparino moments ago, re: Thain spending 90k on an area rug for his office, we have it on good authority that the first issue on Lewis’s agenda is the following surveillance shot of JT “hard at work.” Be interesting to see how Thain explains this.


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Comments (27)

  1. 1
    Posted by guest | January 22, 2009 at 11:48 AM

    tai chi break?

  2. 2
    Posted by guest | January 22, 2009 at 11:49 AM

    shitcanned

  3. 3
    Posted by guest | January 22, 2009 at 11:49 AM

    I doubt JT will go down so easy. Merill will hemorrhage good people left and right.

  4. 4
    Posted by guest | January 22, 2009 at 11:50 AM

    HE IS GONE

  5. 5
    Posted by guest | January 22, 2009 at 11:50 AM

    Shortest live blog ever

  6. 6
    Posted by guest | January 22, 2009 at 11:51 AM

    Funny Bess…he may esplain like dis:
    No bonus…frivalous perks to make my office more like I did get a bonus.My new boss is a dork and I need a really good shitter.Moz looks like an oompa loompa and if he stands on my carpet he blends into the colors and I am not so scared….etc

  7. 7
    Posted by guest | January 22, 2009 at 11:51 AM

    Thain and Montag gone. Two former GS douchebags. Can we please stop putting GS a$$holes into positions of power now like they somehow deserve it?

  8. 8
    Posted by guest | January 22, 2009 at 11:52 AM

    @4
    Merrill exists only in the imagination. Her rotting carcass is dragging others down with her.
    She’s dead, Jim.

  9. 9
    Posted by guest | January 22, 2009 at 11:55 AM

    http://www.civilwarartillery.com/sounds/taps.wav

  10. 10
    Posted by guest | January 22, 2009 at 12:04 PM

    MER SUCKS….. THAIN SUCKS….. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

  11. 11
    Posted by guest | January 22, 2009 at 12:05 PM

    sorry, could someone explain the photo

  12. 12
    Posted by guest | January 22, 2009 at 12:05 PM

    The rug does make the room.

  13. 13
    Posted by guest | January 22, 2009 at 12:08 PM

    @11
    It’s a screen cap from The Big Lebowski. That also explains #12′s comment.

  14. 14
    Posted by guest | January 22, 2009 at 12:23 PM

    @11 – The rug really ties the room together, does it not? Eight year-olds, dude. Eight year-olds.

  15. 15
    Posted by guest | January 22, 2009 at 12:24 PM

    $90k buys a rookie Persian rug
    Dont even think Isfahan Silk or pre-Shah
    Mark-up is also north of 1000%

  16. 16
    Posted by guest | January 22, 2009 at 12:32 PM

    Did you ever hear of the Seattle seven? Yeah that was me…and six other guys

  17. 17
    Posted by guest | January 22, 2009 at 12:36 PM

    Nice Rug

  18. 18
    Posted by guest | January 22, 2009 at 12:40 PM

    THAT RUG REALLY TIED THE ROOM TOGETHER, DID IT NOT!
    Fuckin’ A man….
    Is Ken Lewis the rug pisser?
    Classic pic Bess – helluva of a laugh from that one.

  19. 19
    Posted by guest | January 22, 2009 at 12:54 PM

    Can John take the carpet with him to decorate his smoking room in his CT mansion?

  20. 20
    Posted by guest | January 22, 2009 at 12:58 PM

    Can John take the carpet with him to decorate his smoking room in his CT mansion?

  21. 21
    Posted by guest | January 22, 2009 at 1:17 PM

    [while dunking the Dude's head in the toilet]
    Ken Lewis’s Thug: Where’s the money, Lebowski? Where’s the fucking money, shithead?
    John Thain: It’s uh… uh… it’s down there somewhere, let me take another look.
    John Thain: Let me explain something to you. Um, I am not “Mr. Lebowski”. You’re Mr. Lebowski. I’m the Dude. So that’s what you call me. You know, that or, uh, His Dudeness, or uh, Duder, or El Duderino if you’re not into the whole brevity thing.

  22. 22
    Posted by guest | January 22, 2009 at 2:39 PM

    @ 20 Thain can’t get in to CT, he is Rye trash.

  23. 23
    Posted by guest | January 22, 2009 at 2:45 PM

    You mean coitus?

  24. 24
    Posted by guest | January 22, 2009 at 3:55 PM

    He’s fucking failing social studies.

  25. 25
    Posted by guest | January 22, 2009 at 4:49 PM

    @21…awesome.
    @24…WHERE’S THE MONEY YOU LITTLE SHIT!

  26. 26
    Posted by guest | January 22, 2009 at 9:43 PM

    90k on a merkin? I’ve always preferred the look of a hardwood floor.
    - Fixed Income

  27. 27
    Posted by guest | January 23, 2009 at 7:30 AM

    Thain came to ML with all his GS buddies and paid them big bucks….
    and the ML people he saved?? can anyone say – layoffs
    This guy is too much of a joke. Lewis is right to let him go…who would trust a guy the top of the helm who could mislead about the material facts about the health of his company

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