Buffett to testify under FCIC subpoena

[Guest kumar]

 

http://money.cnn.com/2010/05/27/news/companies/buffett_fcic_subpoena.fortune/index.htm

 

....his assistant, Debbie Bosanek, called Cohen and said -- as she paraphrases it -- that "Mr. Buffett appreciates the invitation and is flattered by it, but he has a full plate with Berkshire and just can't do it."

 

Cohen was not pleased, to put it mildly. Ignoring the word "request" in the first letter, he told Bosanek sternly that "this was not an invitation but more of a command performance." He said that another letter -- "worded differently" -- would be coming....

 

...,After the hearing has concluded on Wednesday (and, no, this is not a joke), Buffett is set to make a quick getaway to Sing Sing Prison in Ossining, N.Y., where a graduation ceremony is being held for prisoners who have completed their college education....

[mpauls]

You have no idea how disappointed I was to discover that this hearing will take place in N.Y.  Errrr.