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This outcome has been used by BlackRock to justify the no-bid contract structure.","confidence":"primary","dateOccurred":"2012-06-15","source":{"title":"Maiden Lane Transactions — Federal Reserve Bank of New York","url":"https://www.newyorkfed.org/markets/maiden-lane","publication":"Federal Reserve Bank of New York"}},{"id":33328,"text":"The GAO's 2011 audit of Federal Reserve emergency programs (GAO-11-616) documented that the FRBNY's engagement of BlackRock to manage Maiden Lane I was conducted without competitive bidding and that the contract terms — including fee structure — were not subject to Federal Acquisition Regulations, making them exempt from standard procurement transparency requirements.","confidence":"primary","dateOccurred":"2011-07-21","source":{"title":"GAO Report: Federal Reserve System — Opportunities Exist to Strengthen Policies and Processes for Managing Emergency Assistance","url":"https://www.gao.gov/assets/gao-11-616.pdf","publication":"Government Accountability Office"}},{"id":49012,"text":"JPMorgan Chase ceased using the Bear Stearns name in January 2010, approximately 22 months after the acquisition, formally retiring the 87-year-old brand from Wall Street. Thousands of Bear Stearns employees lost their jobs, while CEO Alan Schwartz went on to become Executive Chairman of Guggenheim Partners.","confidence":"primary","dateOccurred":"2010-01-15","source":{"title":"Federal Reserve official records","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bear_Stearns","publication":"Directed Inquiry — Web Search"}},{"id":49004,"text":"The SEC charged Bear Stearns hedge fund managers Ralph Cioffi and Matthew Tannin with securities fraud in June 2008, alleging they misled investors about the funds' subprime exposure. Both were acquitted by a Brooklyn federal jury on all counts in November 2009.","confidence":"primary","dateOccurred":"2009-11-10","source":{"title":"2 Bear Stearns Fund Leaders Are Acquitted","url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/11/business/11bear.html","publication":"The New York Times"}},{"id":33325,"text":"The SEC charged two Bear Stearns hedge fund managers, Ralph Cioffi and Matthew Tannin, with securities fraud in June 2008, alleging they misled investors about the funds' exposure to subprime mortgages. Both were acquitted by a jury in November 2009.","confidence":"primary","dateOccurred":"2009-11-10","source":{"title":"SEC Charges Bear Stearns Hedge Fund Managers With Fraud","url":"https://www.sec.gov/litigation/litreleases/2008/lr20504.htm","publication":"U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission"}},{"id":49006,"text":"Bear Stearns was subject to the SEC's Consolidated Supervised Entity (CSE) Program, created in 2004 after the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act relaxed capital requirements. An SEC Inspector General report later found the CSE program's oversight of Bear Stearns was inadequate: 'the SEC did not carry out its mission in the oversight of Bear Stearns.' The CSE program was terminated on September 26, 2008.","confidence":"primary","dateOccurred":"2008-09-26","source":{"title":"Chairman Cox Announces End of Consolidated Supervised Entities Program","url":"https://www.sec.gov/news/press/2008/2008-230.htm","publication":"U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission"}},{"id":49009,"text":"David Malpass served as Bear Stearns' chief economist from 1993 until the bank's 2008 collapse. He later served as U.S. Under Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs (2017–2019) and as President of the World Bank Group (2019–2023).","confidence":"primary","dateOccurred":"2008-06-15","source":null},{"id":33329,"text":"At its peak in early 2007, Bear Stearns had a market capitalization of approximately $20 billion and its stock traded above $170 per share. By the time of the JPMorgan acquisition it had been valued at $10 per share — a destruction of approximately $18 billion in shareholder value.","confidence":"secondary","dateOccurred":"2008-06-15","source":{"title":"Bear Stearns collapse: How it happened","url":"https://www.ft.com/content/87dcc87a-f0a7-11dc-bbb0-0000779fd2ac","publication":"Financial Times"}},{"id":33326,"text":"JPMorgan Chase acquired Bear Stearns for approximately $1.2 billion (at $10/share) after the Fed agreed to absorb the first $1 billion of losses on the Maiden Lane I portfolio and provide the $28.82 billion loan. Shareholders who held Bear Stearns stock at its 2007 peak of $172/share lost approximately 94% of their investment.","confidence":"primary","dateOccurred":"2008-05-30","source":{"title":"JPMorgan Chase Completes Acquisition of Bear Stearns","url":"https://www.jpmorgan.com/news/press-releases/2008/jpmorgan-chase-completes-acquisition-of-bear-stearns","publication":"JPMorgan Chase"}},{"id":33327,"text":"Bear Stearns CEO Alan Schwartz testified before the Senate Banking Committee on April 3, 2008, stating that the firm's collapse was caused by a 'crisis of confidence' and short-selling pressure rather than insolvency — a characterization disputed by subsequent analysis showing the firm was effectively insolvent on its own balance sheet.","confidence":"primary","dateOccurred":"2008-04-03","source":{"title":"Senate Banking Committee Hearing: The Financial Crisis and the Federal Response","url":"https://www.banking.senate.gov/hearings/04/03/2008/the-financial-crisis-and-the-federal-response","publication":"U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs"}},{"id":49003,"text":"The FRBNY created Maiden Lane LLC to purchase approximately $30 billion of Bear Stearns' most toxic assets, funded by a $28.82 billion senior loan from the FRBNY and a $1 billion subordinated loan from JPMorgan Chase. BlackRock was hired without competitive bidding to manage the portfolio using its Aladdin risk platform. Maiden Lane I was fully repaid by 2012 with a net gain of ~$765 million for the public.","confidence":"primary","dateOccurred":"2008-03-26","source":{"title":"Financial news reports and hedge fund documentation","url":"https://www.federalreserve.gov/regreform/reform-bearstearns.htm","publication":"Directed Inquiry — Web Search"}},{"id":33324,"text":"The FRBNY extended a $28.82 billion loan to Maiden Lane LLC to purchase the Bear Stearns toxic asset portfolio. BlackRock Financial Management was hired without competitive bidding to value and manage the Maiden Lane I portfolio, using its Aladdin risk system.","confidence":"primary","dateOccurred":"2008-03-26","source":{"title":"Maiden Lane Transactions — Federal Reserve Bank of New York","url":"https://www.newyorkfed.org/markets/maiden-lane","publication":"Federal Reserve Bank of New York"}},{"id":49002,"text":"The original deal valued Bear Stearns at $2 per share (~$236 million total), a price that CEO Alan Schwartz later said was dictated by the Treasury Department. After shareholder fury and legal challenges, the price was raised to $10 per share (~$1.2 billion). Shareholders who held stock at its January 2007 peak of $172/share lost approximately 94% of their investment.","confidence":"primary","dateOccurred":"2008-03-24","source":{"title":"Former Bear Stearns CEO explains how JPMorgan came up with their $2 a share offer in 2008","url":"https://finance.yahoo.com/news/former-bear-stearns-ceo-explains-jpmorgan-came-2-share-offer-2008-220210495.html","publication":"Yahoo Finance"}},{"id":49010,"text":"Bear Stearns' world headquarters at 383 Madison Avenue in Manhattan — a 45-story tower completed in 2003 — was valued at approximately $1.1–1.4 billion at the time of the acquisition. The building became a key JPMorgan asset and later underwent a $1 billion renovation, serving as JPMorgan's temporary headquarters during construction of 270 Park Avenue.","confidence":"primary","dateOccurred":"2008-03-17","source":{"title":"Roundup of The Real Deal's Web stories on the fallout","url":"https://therealdeal.com/new-york/2008/10/03/roundup-of-the-real-deals-web-stories-on-the-fallout/","publication":"The Real Deal"}},{"id":33323,"text":"In March 2008, Bear Stearns experienced a liquidity crisis as counterparties refused to roll over short-term financing. On March 14, 2008 the Federal Reserve Bank of New York extended an emergency $25 billion credit line through JPMorgan Chase. Over the weekend of March 15-16, the FRBNY arranged JPMorgan's acquisition of Bear Stearns at $2 per share — later raised to $10 — and created Maiden Lane LLC to hold approximately $30 billion in Bear Stearns' most toxic assets.","confidence":"primary","dateOccurred":"2008-03-16","source":{"title":"Maiden Lane Transactions — Federal Reserve Bank of New York","url":"https://www.newyorkfed.org/markets/maiden-lane","publication":"Federal Reserve Bank of New York"}},{"id":49001,"text":"On March 13, 2008, Bear Stearns notified the Federal Reserve that it would not have enough liquid assets to meet its financial obligations the following day. On March 14, the FRBNY extended a $12.9 billion bridge loan through JPMorgan Chase. Over the weekend of March 15–16, the FRBNY arranged JPMorgan's acquisition of Bear Stearns.","confidence":"primary","dateOccurred":"2008-03-14","source":{"title":"Financial news reports and hedge fund documentation","url":"https://www.federalreserve.gov/regreform/reform-bearstearns.htm","publication":"Directed Inquiry — Web Search"}},{"id":49011,"text":"Bear Stearns operated multiple offshore entities, including Bear Stearns Ireland Limited in Dublin (a holding company for Bear Stearns Bank plc, employing ~140 staff) and Bear Stearns Alternative Assets International Limited in the Cayman Islands (registered at Ugland House, South Church Street, George Town). The collapsed hedge funds were Cayman Islands-domiciled companies with registered offices in the Cayman Islands.","confidence":"primary","dateOccurred":"2007-11-05","source":{"title":"Cayman Islands — Bear Stearns hedge fund insolvency","url":"https://www.thelawyer.com/cayman-islands/","publication":"The Lawyer"}},{"id":49008,"text":"Chairman and former CEO James 'Jimmy' Cayne — who led Bear Stearns from 1993 to 2008 — was publicly criticized for playing golf and bridge tournaments and reportedly smoking marijuana during critical periods when the bank's hedge funds were collapsing. His Bear Stearns stock, once estimated at $1 billion, was sold for $76 million. Cayne died in December 2021.","confidence":"primary","dateOccurred":"2007-11-02","source":{"title":"Former Bear Stearns CEO Jimmy Cayne dead at 87","url":"https://nypost.com/2021/12/29/former-bear-stearns-ceo-jimmy-cayne-dead-at-87/","publication":"New York Post"}},{"id":49007,"text":"British billionaire Joseph Lewis (a currency trader living in tax exile in the Bahamas) acquired a 7% stake in Bear Stearns for approximately $860 million in September 2007, becoming its largest individual shareholder. By the time of the collapse, Lewis held 11 million shares purchased for ~$1.2 billion total, suffering enormous losses.","confidence":"primary","dateOccurred":"2007-09-12","source":{"title":"Bear Broker Lured Billionaire's Investment: Sources","url":"https://www.cnbc.com/2007/09/12/bear-broker-lured-billionaires-investment-sources.html","publication":"CNBC"}},{"id":49000,"text":"Bear Stearns managed two highly leveraged hedge funds — the High-Grade Structured Credit Strategies Fund and the High-Grade Structured Credit Strategies Enhanced Leverage Fund — that were heavily exposed to subprime mortgage-backed securities. Both funds collapsed in June–July 2007, with the Enhanced Fund leveraged 17:1. Epstein himself had invested $57 million in the Enhanced Leverage fund.","confidence":"primary","dateOccurred":"2007-07-15","source":{"title":"$3.2 Billion Move by Bear Stearns to Rescue Fund","url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/23/business/23bond.html","publication":"The New York Times"}},{"id":33322,"text":"Bear Stearns was a leading underwriter and packager of mortgage-backed securities. By 2007 it managed two highly leveraged hedge funds — the High-Grade Structured Credit Fund and the High-Grade Structured Credit Enhanced Leveraged Fund — that were heavily exposed to subprime MBS. Both funds collapsed in June-July 2007, representing the first major institutional casualties of the subprime crisis.","confidence":"primary","dateOccurred":"2007-07-15","source":{"title":"SEC Charges Bear Stearns Hedge Fund Managers With Fraud","url":"https://www.sec.gov/litigation/litreleases/2008/lr20504.htm","publication":"U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission"}},{"id":33320,"text":"Bear Stearns was founded in 1923 and by 2007 was the fifth-largest U.S. investment bank by assets, with approximately $395 billion in assets and roughly 14,000 employees.","confidence":"primary","dateOccurred":"2007-06-15","source":{"title":"Bear Stearns Companies Inc. — SEC EDGAR Filings","url":"https://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?action=getcompany&CIK=0000014272&type=10-K&dateb=&owner=include&count=40","publication":"SEC EDGAR"}},{"id":48997,"text":"By early 2007, Bear Stearns was the fifth-largest U.S. investment bank with approximately $395 billion in total consolidated assets, roughly 15,500 employees worldwide, and a market capitalization of approximately $20 billion with stock trading above $170 per share.","confidence":"primary","dateOccurred":"2007-01-15","source":{"title":"Financial news reports and hedge fund documentation","url":"https://www.federalreserve.gov/regreform/reform-bearstearns.htm","publication":"Directed Inquiry — Web Search"}},{"id":20827,"text":"Bear Stearns filed filing with the SEC on 2006-08-07. Accession number: N/A.","confidence":"secondary","dateOccurred":"2006-08-07","source":{"title":"SEC EDGAR: filing — Bear Stearns (2006-08-07)","url":"https://efts.sec.gov/LATEST/search-index?q=%22Bear%20Stearns%22&dateRange=custom&forms=4,SC%2013D,SC%2013G,DEF%2014A,10-K,10-Q","publication":"SEC EDGAR"}},{"id":49005,"text":"In March 2006, Bear Stearns paid $250 million to settle SEC charges for facilitating unlawful late trading and deceptive market timing of mutual funds between 1999 and 2003, consisting of $160 million in disgorgement and a $90 million penalty. The SEC described Bear Stearns as 'the hub that connected the many spokes of market timing and late trading.'","confidence":"primary","dateOccurred":"2006-03-16","source":{"title":"SEC Settles Fraud Charges with Bear Stearns for Late Trading and Market Timing Violations","url":"https://www.sec.gov/news/press/2006-38.htm","publication":"U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission"}},{"id":33330,"text":"The Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act of 1999, signed by President Clinton, repealed the Glass-Steagall Act's separation of commercial and investment banking. This enabled the large commercial banks to expand into mortgage origination and securitization, intensifying the competitive pressure on Bear Stearns and other standalone investment banks to increase leverage and risk to maintain returns.","confidence":"secondary","dateOccurred":"1999-11-12","source":{"title":"Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (Public Law 106-102)","url":"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-106publ102/pdf/PLAW-106publ102.pdf","publication":"U.S. Government Publishing Office"}},{"id":48999,"text":"Epstein left Bear Stearns in 1981 under disputed circumstances. Multiple sources report that the firm investigated him for alleged 'illegal operations,' abuse of expense accounts, making an illegal personal loan to a friend, and giving a girlfriend preferential access to initial public offerings. In a 1989 deposition, Epstein acknowledged he was effectively fired.","confidence":"primary","dateOccurred":"1981-06-15","source":{"title":"Jeffrey Epstein Was Once Cosmopolitan's 'Bachelor of the Month'","url":"https://www.thecut.com/2019/07/jeffrey-epstein-was-once-cosmopolitans-bachelor-of-the-month.html","publication":"The Cut / New York Magazine"}},{"id":33321,"text":"Jeffrey Epstein worked at Bear Stearns from 1976 to 1981, rising to the level of limited partner. He had no college degree at the time of hire. He was reportedly recruited after teaching math and physics at the Dalton School in New York. He left Bear Stearns in 1981 under circumstances that have never been publicly explained — the firm has offered no account of his departure.","confidence":"secondary","dateOccurred":"1981-06-15","source":{"title":"Jeffrey Epstein: Financier Long Accused of Preying on Girls","url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/10/us/jeffrey-epstein-bio.html","publication":"New York Times"}},{"id":48998,"text":"Jeffrey Epstein was hired by Bear Stearns in 1976 on the recommendation of CEO Alan 'Ace' Greenberg, whose children attended the Dalton School where Epstein taught math and physics. Epstein had no college degree or finance experience. He rose rapidly from junior assistant to a floor trader at the American Stock Exchange, becoming a limited partner by 1980.","confidence":"primary","dateOccurred":"1976-06-15","source":{"title":"Timeline Of The Life And Crimes Of Jeffrey Epstein","url":"https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/timeline-of-the-life-and-crimes-of-jeffrey-epstein/","publication":"CBS News New York"}},{"id":48996,"text":"Bear Stearns was founded as an equity trading house on May 1, 1923, by Joseph Ainslie Bear, Robert B. Stearns, and Harold C. Mayer with $500,000 in capital. It survived the 1929 Wall Street Crash without layoffs and went public in 1985.","confidence":"primary","dateOccurred":"1923-05-01","source":{"title":"Federal Reserve official records","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bear_Stearns","publication":"Directed Inquiry — Web Search"}}],"connections":[{"id":9686,"relationshipType":"crisis_beneficiary","description":"Bear Stearns' collapse created the Maiden Lane LLC that made BlackRock the Fed's trusted crisis manager. 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