— Matt Taibbi and Molly CrabappleThe saddest story of all came from Robert Shannon, the city attorney for Long Beach, California. “Our town invested almost twenty million dollars with Lehman two weeks before its collapse,” he said, laughing darkly. “Two weeks.”
Replicated under Fair Use from The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap by Matt Taibbi and Molly Crabapple. (Pg. 168)