Goldman CFO: We're 'Very Aware of Public Opinion and the Backlash Against Wall Street'

The report will include, according to Bloomberg BusinessWeek, “a letter to shareholders that will, for the first time, explicitly defend its conduct during the mortgage bubble and subsequent collapse.”

Goldman’s PR issues have been chronicled here and across the media over the past year.

Recently, the firm acknowledged, “Press coverage and other public statements that assert some form of wrongdoing, regardless of the factual basis for the assertions being made, often results in some type of investigation by regulators, legislators and law enforcement officials, or in lawsuits.”

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