CHARLES LANE
(Charles Lane)
Geithner, the Treasury Secretary immediately after the Meltdown of 2008, facing complete collapse of our financial system, among other ameliorations, advocated and implemented many subsidies to bail out the banks most of whom had been greedy, foolish and often dishonest. He even allowed banks to use taxpayer money to pay bonuses to Bank executives who had brought the bank to ruin being a cause of the crisis. However, the banks not only survived but recovered and made huge profits while many of the taxpayers whose funds were used to help the banks were still struggling to make ends meet and it was they who received little, if any, government assistant.
Charles "Chuck" Lane (born 1961) is an American journalist and editor who is an editorial writer for The Washington Post and a regular guest on the Fox News Channel. He was the editor of The New Republic from 1997 to 1999. During his tenure as editor, Lane oversaw, in large part, the work of Stephen Glass, a staff reporter who fabricated significant portions or all of some 41 articles, in one of the largest journalistic fabrication scandals of contemporary American journalism. After the New Republic, Lane went to work for the Post, where, from 2000 to 2009, he covered the Supreme Court of the United States and issues related to the criminal justice system and judicial matters. He has since joined the newspaper's editorial page, where he currently works. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
