Sandy weill and the story behind citigroup
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In his new autobiography _The Real Deal_, the former chairman and CEO Sanford "Sandy" Weill describes his storied career, from his beginnings as a runner on Wall Street to building
the world's largest financial empire: Citigroup. The company was founded in 1998 when Weill negotiated the historic merger between two financial giants, Citicorp and Traveler's
Group. The deal transformed financial services in America. Citigroup eventually became a banker to Enron and WorldCom. Scandals involving those companies snared Citigroup, too. Citigroup
paid $2.65 billion to settle an investor lawsuit over its role in the WorldCom scandal, and critics of the company questioned whether Weill had created an empire he could not control.
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