A new Goldman Sachs "scandal"

February 15, 2010 | By Jim Kim

What would life be without a fresh "scandal" to provide more fodder for the Goldman Sachs (GS) conspiracy theorists? The latest comes from London, where a move to levy a per-tax trade, which has been dubbed the Robin Hood tax, has heated up. Leaders of the movement set up a website and created a standard poll asking whether such a tax would be a good idea. Leaders watched with concern as almost 5,000 no votes streamed in within 20 minutes.

According to The Guardian, most of those votes emanated from two computer servers--one of which was registered to none other than Goldman Sachs. If true, I doubt this is some Goldman Sachs Black Ops unit. It seems more like the work of one of their IT guys having some fun. But we'll see how the company responds. It should get to the bottom of it. Someone might get fired.

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