Citigroup's Sandy Weill will either go down as Wall Street's savior...or Wall Street's goat.
One of the most notable punishments is that issued against Sandy Weill, chairman of Citigroup.
Whereas Sandy Weill, say, likes to gloat about his latest headline-grabbing coup, Mr Storm is much more reserved.
So if you are Sandy Weill and you have two problems to solve, selecting Sallie Krawcheck solves them both.
When Citigroup's Chairman Sandy Weill was in Singapore recently he met only one person outside the government: Ho Ching.
Provocatively, Bartiromo compared Dimon to his former boss and later antagonist Sandy Weill, former CEO of American Express and Citi.
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Jamie Dimon learned banking at the foot of the quintessential eat-what-you-kill Wall Streeter, Sandy Weill, former chairman and CEO of Citigroup.
Fishman grew up professionally working for Sandy Weill and was named co-chief operating officer of Citigroup in 2000 along with Chuck Prince.
Financial sector honchos like Sandy Weill walked away with a billion generated by deal activity which in the long run was deeply flawed.
At the new Citigroup, employees spend much time trying to work out whether Sandy Weill of Travelers or John Reed of Citicorp is top dog.
Maybe Sandy Weill, head of Citigroup, the world's largest financial firm?
None less than Sandy Weill called for just that in July.
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Some banks and regulators aim to break out research units, as Citigroup's Sandy Weill has offered, and institute a system to make the IPO process equitable.
Marjorie Magner heads the group's consumer banking division and has worked closely with chairman Sandy Weill (who has his own difficulties with the firm) over two decades.
Some, like Ron Perelman and Sandy Weill, do so prodigiously.
Wall Street's top bosses notably Sandy Weill, the head of Citigroup, Mr Grubman's former employer and the most heavily fined of the Wall Street firms have suffered little more than bruised reputations.
Indeed, the need to appear squeaky clean has prompted Sandy Weill, Citigroup's chairman, to appoint a long-standing ally as the new head of the company's global corporate and investment bank.
Nor is it inconceivable that a similar fate awaits America's other stockmarket stars, such as Sandy Weill and Bernie Ebbers, whose failure could even shake investors' faith in the stockmarket.
If we could set aside political realities, my choice would be to simply follow the advice of Sandy Weill, the person most responsible for building the Citibank behemoth in the 1980s and 1990s.
Skeptical of the concept of a financial supermarket which was what Sandy Weill and John Reed said they were creating with the merger of Citi and Travelers, he walked into a branch and asked for a credit card.
His experience dates from 1986, when, in conjunction with his former boss at American Express, Sandy Weill, he took over Commercial Credit, a firm that specialised in making expensive loans to people who could not, or would not, use a bank.
The abrupt departure from Citigroup of its president Jamie Dimon, supposedly a likely successor to co-chairmen Sandy Weill and John Reed, hit the share price and raised concerns about the meshing together of Citicorp and Travelers in the world's biggest-ever financial-services merger.
For all their outward chumminess, the course of true love has not run smoothly between Sandy Weill and John Reed, the co-chairmen and co-chief executives of the financial-services giant since it was formed in April 1998 by the merger of Citibank and Travelers.
Certainly, when Salomon Brothers, an investment bank, was acquired last September by Travelers, a financial conglomerate, many on Wall Street suspected that the deal had more to do with the considerable ego of Sandy Weill, the boss of Travelers, than with commercial logic.
The role of CEO succession has played an important role in the disaster that is Citigroup with the creator of this monster, Sandy Weill, having kicked out, undermined or demoralized just about every decent candidate to succeed him, including, famously, JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon.
The CEOs named by Jackson, who included John Chambers of Cisco, Meg Whitman (for her tenure at eBay), Steve Ballmer of Microsoft, Michael Eisner of Disney, Sandy Weill of Citigroup, and Carol Bartz of Yahoo, do not need me to defend them.
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