Why Some CEOs Survive Wall Street Scandals

``Why was Diamond fired but not Dimon or Blankfein? All faced internal and governmental inquiries into what went wrong at their firms. In January 2011, a Goldman internal committee published a report on the firm's business standards and what it could do better. This summer, Dimon appeared before panels in both the House and Senate and was treated with kid gloves by most of the members. (Diamond, on the other hand, was grilled ruthlessly by the U.K. Parliament the day after he resigned.) ''