How To Drive Readers Crazy: Seek A White House Pardon For A Goldman Sachs Exec Subjected To A ‘Witch Hunt’

William D. Cohan has an interesting column online for the Times today entitled, “A Wall Street Witch Hunt,” which discusses the February 12, 1987 arrest on insider trading charges, and subsequent guilty plea to a count of mail fraud, of a senior Goldman Sachs executive, Robert Freeman. The column tells an interesting story – but don’t miss the scathing comments from readers. The first one sets the general tone: “All of the worthy men in this country to possibly be pardoned, and you suggest a Goldman Sachs alum. Why am I not surprised.” 

The article is available at http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/04/a-wall-street-witch-hunt/.