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Inside Lehman Brothers

During that time, I wasturned down left and right

During that time, I was
turned down left and right

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During that time, I was turned down left and right.
Duration
6 seconds
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Timestamp in Movie
00:49:45
Uploaded
Jun 26, 2025
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documentary
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Inside Lehman Brothers is the autopsy of a crime by those who tried to prevent it from within. Mortgage brokers from California and a handful of New York executives called out these fraudulent transactions. But nobody listened.
I could not get any job in the mortgage industry. - Inside Lehman Brothers 00:04
I could not get any job in the mortgage industry.
By 2007 you knew things were going downhill. - Inside Lehman Brothers 00:06
By 2007 you knew things were going downhill.
And then our financial year was November 30th, 2007. - Inside Lehman Brothers 00:06
And then our financial year was November 30th, 2007.
And we had a record year. The best year ever at Lehman Brothers. - Inside Lehman Brothers 00:04
And we had a record year. The best year ever at Lehman Broth...
I thought, um, - Inside Lehman Brothers 00:05
I thought, um,
Lehman in the spring of 2008 - Inside Lehman Brothers 00:10
Lehman in the spring of 2008
The only way that Lehman could get rid of assets - Inside Lehman Brothers 00:06
The only way that Lehman could get rid of assets
The problem was that the assets they had, - Inside Lehman Brothers 00:04
The problem was that the assets they had,
A repo is a sale with an agreement to buy back later. - Inside Lehman Brothers 00:05
A repo is a sale with an agreement to buy back later.
Repo 105. - Inside Lehman Brothers 00:04
Repo 105.
Repo 105 was a method of hiding how much you borrowed. - Inside Lehman Brothers 00:04
Repo 105 was a method of hiding how much you borrowed.
And what it involved, essentially, was - Inside Lehman Brothers 00:13
And what it involved, essentially, was
Assets were transferred from the United States subsidiary - Inside Lehman Brothers 00:16
Assets were transferred from the United States subsidiary
And at the end of a few days after the quarter, - Inside Lehman Brothers 00:09
And at the end of a few days after the quarter,
The whole purpose of this - Inside Lehman Brothers 00:09
The whole purpose of this
And you're allowed to say that - Inside Lehman Brothers 00:09
And you're allowed to say that
And every time they did it, - Inside Lehman Brothers 00:11
And every time they did it,
It was illegal to tell the public - Inside Lehman Brothers 00:07
It was illegal to tell the public
That was not a gray area, it was red with bells ringing. - Inside Lehman Brothers 00:04
That was not a gray area, it was red with bells ringing.
When Lehman started raising money in 2008 - Inside Lehman Brothers 00:12
When Lehman started raising money in 2008