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Goldman exec quits with scathing public rebuke of the firm

NEW YORK – Goldman Sachs, arguably the most storied investment bank on Wall Street, has been compared to a money-sucking vampire squid and called the evil empire of finance. On Wednesday it got an entirely different kind of black eye — delivered by one of its own.

Greg Smith, an executive director at the bank, resigned with a blistering editorial that accused the bank of losing its “moral fiber,” putting profits ahead of customers’ interests and dismissing customers as “muppets.”

The decline of the bank’s culture, he wrote, threatened Goldman’s survival after 143 years.

The stinging essay, “Why I Am Leaving Goldman Sachs,” appeared in The New York Times, was the talk of Wall Street and was widely circulated online. Smith became a trending topic on Twitter, the social network website.

CNBC, the financial news channel, ran clips of the ornery balcony critics from “The Muppet Show.” Other websites quickly posted spoofs: “Why I am leaving the Empire,” allegedly penned by Darth Vader from “Star Wars,” was one getting attention.

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