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Barney Frank: “It is one thing to have fairly intrusive compensation restrictions when people are getting money directly; it is another…”

On the recordJune 10, 2009
It is one thing to have fairly intrusive compensation restrictions when people are getting money directly; it is another when we are talking about risk assessment
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Barney Frank
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Frank differentiates between compensation restrictions for direct recipients versus general risk assessment.

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