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Lawrence Summers, director of President Barack Obama’s National Economic Council, took in more than $2.7 million in speaking fees paid by organizations that included Citigroup Inc., Goldman Sachs Group Inc., and Bank of America Corp., among other companies now receiving taxpayer funds in the economic bailout. —Bloomberg News
Bottom: “Why do they run away? I see their knavery. This is to make an ass of me.”
