TARP watchdog Neil Barofksy appeared on CNBC today to discuss the 250-page report card on the bailout the SIGTARP office (that’s Special Inspector General of the Toxic Assets Relief Program, but you knew that) submitted today to Congress. The tenor of his appearance was a great deal milder than that of his report. Asked if he worried that his prosecutorial zeal would dissuade financial institutions from participating in federal programs to restore the system to health, he emphasized that those who “play by the rules” had nothing to worry about. “Those institutions — those banks, those creditors, those those hedge funds — that are seeking to steal from the system, to game this program — I hope we do scare them off,” he told the program Squawk Box.
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