Carl Levin actually said...

"Was it a coincidence that the way in which those marks were made changed to reduce the losses on the books at the time those losses were piling up?"

"the OCC allow optimization one time and then from there on, hey, quit it?"

"All right. So that this is wrong, this email is wrong. Is that correct?"

"the bank stopped sending the Investment Bank's daily profit and loss (P&L) data to the OCC."