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Orianna Rosa Royle

Jefferies boss shares email sent to Lehman Brothers' CEO on the day it collapsed

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Sixteen years after Lehman Brothers’ collapse, Jefferies CEO Richard Handler has shared the email he sent to the bank's former CEO, Richard "Dick" Fuld, on the day the firm filed for the largest bankruptcy in U.S. history.

In a series of Instagram posts over the weekend, Handler revealed the exchange with Fuld, which occurred just before Lehman’s fall sent the global economy into a tailspin.

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