Somehow, Kidney’s goodbye party departed from standard employee goodbye party protocol–where the departing employee thanks everyone for the cake and for coming out to say goodbye–into something quite different. According to numerous reports this week (not to mention a full-blown transcript of Kidney’s “Retirement Remarks” obtained and published by the SEC Union), Kidney took the opportunity at his goodbye party to lambaste his long-time employer for numerous supposed transgressions, including being too “tentative and fearful” to bring cases against Wall Street executives following the financial crisis.
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