he checks in with the board when things get dicey- like the 2008 financial crisis? that’s wild

Rajaratnam’s defense lawyer, John Dowd, asked Blankfein whether he was a daily reader of the Wall Street Journal. “Sometimes I do,” Blankfein testified, before hurriedly adding, “Often I do. But not always.”…Blankfein [also said he] checks his bank’s profit every day, prefers voice mail to e-mail and makes unscheduled calls to board members at times of market “uncertainty.” [Bloomberg]