{"id":1095,"date":"2009-06-11T10:14:56","date_gmt":"2009-06-11T14:14:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=1095"},"modified":"2009-06-11T11:44:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-11T15:44:00","slug":"bofa-ceo-pressured-in-merrill-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2009\/06\/11\/bofa-ceo-pressured-in-merrill-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"BofA CEO pressured in Merrill deal?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bank of America CEO Ken Lewis <a title=\"testifies before Congress today\" href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB124472321695405977.html?mod=googlenews_wsj\" target=\"_blank\">testifies before Congress today <\/a>about whether federal regulators pressured him to complete a deal last year to buy Merrill Lynch.\u00a0 <a title=\"Mark T. Williams\" href=\"http:\/\/smgnet.bu.edu\/mgmt_new\/profiles\/WilliamsMark.html\" target=\"_blank\">Mark T. Williams<\/a>, a former Federal Reserve bank examiner who teaches finance in the School of Management and is writing a book on the fall of Lehman Brothers during the same time frame, can discuss the big picture of Wall Street&#8217;s collapse.<\/p>\n<p>Contact Mark T. Williams, 617-358-2789, <a href=\"mailto:williams@bu.edu\">williams@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bank of America CEO Ken Lewis testifies before Congress today about whether federal regulators pressured him to complete a deal last year to buy Merrill Lynch.\u00a0 Mark T. Williams, a former Federal Reserve bank examiner who teaches finance in the School of Management and is writing a book on the fall of Lehman Brothers during [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[1221,91,753],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1095"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1095"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1118,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1095\/revisions\/1118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}