Suit Revives Goldman Conflict Issue

``The lawsuit, along with a review by The New York Times of confidential government documents and internal e-mails, raises questions about the success of Goldman's efforts to police potential conflicts. The bank has been buffeted by accusations that it has put its own interests ahead of its clients, a contention it denies. Goldman, for instance, faced accusations that in the run-up to the financial crisis that it sold billions of dollars in souring real estate assets to unsuspecting clients. Just weeks before the examiners' vote last year, the bank was publicly excoriated by a federal judge who found that Goldman had conflicts in a huge energy deal.''