… trustee Steven A. Cohen – featured an exhibit titled: Move Along, Nothing to See Here.
What Brown University is currently exhibiting – institutional indifference to the university’s continued association with le très malsain M. Cohen – is a show of the same name: Nothing to see here. Steve’s our guy, SEC be damned.
It’s been months now that we’ve known Cohen’s scandalous firm to be insider trading central; but, well, as a commenter on the latest Brown Daily Herald article writes:
Why would it affect Cohen’s [trustee] status? Steve Rattner gave the family weekend speech in 2012 after being charged in a pay for play scheme by the SEC, and paying huge fines.
Trustee Steve the First! Gone but not forgotten (scroll down). As to the Second: UD understands a university pausing for a very long moment before breaking up with a guy who makes nine hundred million dollars a year in salary. A guy with a personal fortune of around ten billion dollars. UD‘s heart goes out to Brown at this difficult time. Brown must work out a complex moral calculus: Filthy lucre vs. a shred of ethical integrity.
Stay tuned.
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As always, UD thanks Roy.
July 25th, 2013 at 3:30PM
It seems that Brown long ago worked out that particular complex moral calculus, and came down on the side against integrity. “Love of money is the root of all evil,” no?