LEAD ARTICLE - Government versus Goldman The SEC has charged Goldman Sachs with fraud related to products that track performance of mortgage-backed securities. Specifically, the SEC alleges that Goldman failed to inform customers that products for which it was making a market had been created with the assistance of hedge fund Paulson & Co., and that Paulson was at the same time betting that those securities would fail. Goldman has vehemently denied the charges, explaining that their customer (ACA Management LLC) was the "portfolio selection agent" and was never misled. . . .
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