Top officials willfully concealed the true extent of the 2008-'09 bailouts from Congress and the public.
•The secret Wall Street bailouts totaled $7.77 trillion, 10 times more than the $700 billion passed by Congress in 2008.
•Knowledge of the secret bailout funds was not shared with Congress.
•The secret funding gave Wall Street banks an additional $13 billion in profits.
•The secret loans financed bank mergers so that the largest banks could grow even larger.
•Henry Paulson secretly told hedge fund managers he was going to natonalize Fannie and Freddie so they made a fortune.
•Timothy Geithner argued against legislative efforts to limit the size of banks in congress without telling congress of yhe secret loans.
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