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On the recordApril 26, 2010
But you guys wanted to take a heck of a lot more risk on shorts, and that is, according to your own numbers, what happened.
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Carl Levin
Democratic · Michigan

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Levin criticized the firm's excessive risk-taking in short positions.

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