Goldman in the hotseat

"Goldman Sachs (GS) has kept its hands clean the credit crisis, but now the firm may have to wallow in the mud with the rest of its peers. The Wall Street Journal reports that some pointed questions are being asked of Goldman chief executive Lloyd Blankfien by none other than Alan Schwartz, who was at the helm of Bear Stearns when it died in March. Schwartz would like to know whether there is any truth to talk that in the days preceding Bear’s fall, Goldman traders in London were manipulating the struggling firm’s stock."