Inside Job Transcript - Final Version - 9.30.10 - Sony Pictures Classics
Inside Job Transcript - Final Version - 9.30.10 - Sony Pictures Classics
Inside Job Transcript - Final Version - 9.30.10 - Sony Pictures Classics
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<strong>Inside</strong> <strong>Job</strong> transcript – <strong>Sony</strong> <strong>Pictures</strong> – September 2010 33<br />
{LAWRENCE McDONALD<br />
FORMER VICE PRESIDENT<br />
LEHMAN BROTHERS}<br />
LAWRENCE McDONALD: Richard Fuld never appeared on the trading floor. There<br />
was art advisors up there all the time. You know, he had his own private elevator. The-,<br />
the, he went out of his way to be disconnected.<br />
I mean, his elevator – they hired technicians to program it, you know, so that his driver<br />
would call in in the morning, and a security guard would hold it. And there's only like a<br />
two- or three-second window where he actually has to see people. And he hops into this<br />
elevator, and goes straight to 31.<br />
01:44:16.10<br />
CHARLES FERGUSON: Lehman owned a bunch of corporate jets. Do you know about<br />
this?<br />
{HARVEY MILLER<br />
LEHMAN'S BANKRUPTCY LAWYER}<br />
HARVEY MILLER: Yes.<br />
CHARLES FERGUSON: How many were there?<br />
HARVEY MILLER: Well, there were six, including the 767s. They also had a helicopter.<br />
CHARLES FERGUSON: I see. Isn't that kind of a lot of planes to have, for –<br />
01:44:32.11<br />
{JEFFREY LANE<br />
VICE CHAIRMAN<br />
LEHMAN BROTHERS (2003-2007)}<br />
JEFFREY LANE: You're dealing with Type A personalities, and uh, uh, Type A<br />
personalities know everything in the world.<br />
WILLEM BUITER: Banking became a pissing contest, you know; m-, mine's bigger than<br />
yours; that kind of stuff. It was all men that ran it, incidentally.<br />
JEFFREY LANE: Fifty-billion-dollar deals were not large enough, so we do hundredbillion-dollar<br />
deals.<br />
01:44:48.07