Timothy Geithner

Timothy Franz "Great Gazoo" Geithner (b. 1961) is politician and economist and from 2009 until 2013 the Secretary of the Treasury under President Obama. He attended Dartmouth College and the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and served in the International Monetary Fund as well as the New York Federal Reserve Bank. Geithner played a key role in dealing with the financial crisis of the Great Recession and fell under the inevitable criticism of some conservatives as well as many liberals. Apparently Geithner had not paid $35,000 in taxes for the years 2001–2004.[1] He later paid them, plus $15,000 in interest. [2]

AIG scandal

Geithner is said to have urged AIGFile:Wikipedia's W.svg to conceal certain terms of the company's bailout from the public.[3]

gollark: Which we probably do have right now, actually. There are something like... three cities. Cherryville is tiny, Chorus City uses weird names picked by me, and Switch City, well, has roads.
gollark: But I mean globally unique street names in Switchcraft.
gollark: Yes, the openstreetmaps page says so.
gollark: > what3words is a commercial, non-open, patented location reference schema. Open data advocates (such as the OpenStreetMap community) would generally advise against adopting it at all.I see.
gollark: What's wrong with them?

References

References
  1. Tax problems may plague Obama's treasury pick
  2. Reuters
  3. Occupy Seattle, Facebook, March 6 2012.
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