Federal Reserve System: Opportunities Exist to Strengthen Policies and Processes for Managing Emergency Assistance (GAO-11-696)

Government Record · U.S. Government Accountability Office · July 2011

GAO's July 2011 audit of the Federal Reserve's emergency programs. It reports BlackRock's fees for managing the three Maiden Lane companies: $107,648,136 for Maiden Lane LLC, $24,102,579 for Maiden Lane II and $50,031,879 for Maiden Lane III, about $181.8 million in all, and classifies all three selections as noncompetitive. It classifies TALF collateral monitoring as competitive and the Citigroup valuation contract ($12.7 million) as noncompetitive.

$181.8 million

Printed p. 54; tables 15-17, pp. 174, 177, 184

GAO's July 2011 audit of the Federal Reserve's emergency programs. It reports BlackRock's fees for managing the three Maiden Lane companies: $107,648,136 for Maiden Lane LLC, $24,102,579 for Maiden Lane II and $50,031,879 for Maiden Lane III, about $181.8 million in all, and classifies all three selections as noncompetitive. It classifies TALF collateral monitoring as competitive and the Citigroup valuation contract ($12.7 million) as noncompetitive. GAO notes BlackRock had already evaluated AIG's assets before it was hired, and describes the ethical walls and monitoring the New York Fed required.

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