I’m very discreet… but I will haunt your dreams

“I want people to know I have nothing against you personally,” Davis, 81, tells C.E.O. Lloyd C. Blankfein. “And you are not a bad looking guy.” She then gives Mr. Blankfein a free copy of her newsletter Highlights and Lowlights…Davis [later asks] Mr. Blankfein if his wife Laura was present. [Dealbook, earlier]


Marko believes he’s right for the gig because he “knows where the skeletons are buried on Wall Street.” David Weidner thinks he’s wrong for it because he’s “self-righteous,” “a little bit crazy,” and had the stones to say Tom Hanks, Matt Damon or Nicholas Cage should play him in a movie. These were securities law professor John “McEnroe” Coffee’s two cents: “He is what the commission needs only if the commission needs an emotionally unstable idiot savant. You cannot be serious.”