The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap Highlight

A year or so later The New York Times’s star finance writer, Gretchen Morgenson, ran a piece suggesting that Geithner had in 2008 warned off then–New York attorney general Andrew Cuomo from pursuing “hard-charging” prosecutions. “[Geithner’s] worry,” according to Morgenson’s sources, “sprang from a desire to calm markets, a goal that could be complicated by a hard-charging attorney general.”