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U.S. Pressured Bank to Buy Merrill Lynch, Executive Says

Kenneth D. Lewis, the Bank of America chief, told a House panel that he was pressured by the government late last year to purchase Merrill Lynch.

 

BoFA Chief Lewis: U.S. Wanted Me To Keep Quiet About Plan To Buy Merrill Lynch

BoFA Chief Lewis: U.S. Wanted Me To Keep Quiet About Plan To Buy Merrill Lynch

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and then-Treasury Department chief Henry Paulson pressured Bank of America Corp. to not discuss its increasingly troubled plan to buy Merrill Lynch & Co. -- a deal that later triggered a government bailout of BofA -- according to testimony by Kenneth Lewis, the bank's chief executive.

 

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