"I’ll miss Carl Levin when he leaves the Senate after the next election — and you will, too."
So writes Joe Nocera, the New York Times op-ed columnist, in a paen to Levin, the Detroiter who has served in the U.S. Senate for 34 years.
According to Nocera:
As a longtime Democratic member of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations — and as its chairman since 2007 — Levin has done more than anyone to expose the scams, the conflicts, the wrongdoing and the sheer idiocy of the financial industry from the run-up to the financial crisis to the present day. Every time Levin’s subcommittee holds a hearing, it should shame Attorney General Eric “Too Big to Jail” Holder Jr.
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