According to Neil Barofsky, those who benefited most from the program were not homeowners, but the banks.

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Neil Barofsky, special inspector general for TARP, recently said that his office has more than 120 criminal investigations underway.

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But now Neil Barofsky, special inspector general for TARP, is questioning how the Treasury came up with that lowball estimate.

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There seems to be some wrangling right now between the Treasury Department and the Special Inspector General of TARP, Neil Barofsky, about how independent Barofsky's office in TARP is.

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Neil Barofsky, a former Southern District prosecutor who left the office in December, 2008, to become the first inspector general of the Troubled Asset Relief Program, considers this a mistake.

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The two books are Bull By The Horns by Sheila Bair, former head of the FDIC, and Bailout by Neil Barofsky, former Special Inspector General in charge of oversight of TARP.

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This week Neil Barofsky, the New York lawyer who was appointed as the programme's inspector-general last year, has recommended that any firm participating in PPIP should have to disclose the names of its beneficial owners such as hedge-fund partners.

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The Treasury Department rebuffed that request, although ultimately I think they did turn over the documents -- but the Treasury Department sought a ruling from the Justice Department on just how independent Neil Barofsky's office is supposed to be.

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From " Bailout: An Inside Account of how Washington Abandoned Main Street While Rescuing Wall Street, " by Neil Barofsky, former special inspector general to oversee the Troubled Assets Relief Program: Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke "confided that he believed that Goldman Sachs would have been the next to go" after Morgan Stanley.

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