The 10 Worst Brooklynites of All Time
If the financial collapse of 2008 had a single villain, it might just be Lloyd Blankfein, who rose up from the humble beginnings of East New York’s Linden Houses to become the Chairman and CEO of Goldman-Sachs as the company led the world into economic collapse on a wave of subprime mortgages. Making matters worse, Blankfein famously argued that Goldman-Sachs had no moral obligation to inform its customers the company was actually betting against the products it’d sold them. As long as someone’s getting rich, right?