ABC Zeroes In on George
Rebecca Dana is a culture correspondent for The Daily Beast. A former editor and reporter for the Wall Street Journal, she has also written for the New York Times, the New York Observer, Rolling Stone and Slate, among other publications.
ABC News President David Westin traveled to Washington Thursday and met with George Stephanopoulos, who has emerged as the heir apparent to Diane Sawyer as host of Good Morning America, Rebecca Dana reports. But Stephanopoulos is also trying to keep his Sunday job.
Blackmailing the Stars
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Cindy Crawford and Rande Gerber are the alleged victims of a $100,000 extortion scheme. From Oprah and Elvis to J. Lo and Letterman, threats and legal troubles are just another byproduct of fame. VIEW OUR GALLERY of celebrity shakedowns.
An SEC Charge for Lewis?
Charles Gasparino is CNBC's On-Air Editor and appears as a daily member of CNBC's ensemble. He is a columnist for the Daily Beast and a frequent contributor to the New York Post, Forbes, and other publications. His forthcoming book about the financial crisis, The Sellout, is scheduled to be published later in 2009.
Days before Bank of America CEO Ken Lewis announced he was stepping down, he lawyered up. Charlie Gasparino on the likelihood he'll be charged by the SEC-which has something to prove after botching Madoff and the meltdown-over the Merrill debacle.
The Merger That Ruined Lewis
Nomi Prins is author of It Takes a Pillage: Behind the Bonuses, Bailouts, and Backroom Deals from Washington to Wall Street (Wiley, September, 2009). Before becoming a journalist, she worked on Wall Street as a managing director at Goldman Sachs, and running the international analytics group at Bear Stearns in London.
Bank of America CEO Ken Lewis was the classic American success story. But he had a weakness for big deals-and his resignation was inevitable from the second he agreed to take on Merrill Lynch.
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
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Martin Jacques is the cofounder of the UK think tank Demos, writes a regular column for The Guardian, and is a visiting research fellow at the London School of Economics Asia Research Centre. His new book, When China Rules the World, is available now.
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