The John Thain rehabilitation campaign continues.
He hasn’t been on The View yet, but the chair-throwing ex-Merrill CEO did the next best thing this afternoon, talking to Maria Bartiromo of CNBC about his departure last week from Bank of America, why he’s not to blame for Merrill’s multiple billion dollar losses, and the whether it was a good idea to spend $1.2 million of Merill’s money redecorating his office suite. (Short answer: No, but it was a “different economic environment.”)
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=146668