“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]
I’m very discreet… but I will haunt your dreams
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.”