Law360, New York (September 08, 2009, 7:05 PM ET) -- In a letter addressed to Bank of America Corp. lawyer Lewis J. Liman of Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP on Tuesday, New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo accused BofA of using attorney-client privilege to hamper a probe into the bank's buyout of troubled Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc.
The letter accused BofA of using attorney-client privilege as “both a sword and a shield.”
Cuomo is investigating whether BofA withheld information about Merrill Lynch from investors. In his letter to Liman, Cuomo said that BofA said...
Cuomo Says BofA Using Atty Privilege To Duck Probe
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