New York Community Bancorp Inc (NYCB)

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"Lampert Has A Friend On The Government Agency Board That Helped Seal His Deal For Sears
Eddie Lampert proudly points out that he’s a Yalie, class of '84. As a summa cum laude graduate with a degree in economics, there’s no doubt he learned a few things about making money.

While attending Yale, he lived for a time with two roommates. One of them went on to make some pretty good money himself in the entertainment business—as a producer of a whole host of films, from Wonder Woman to The Lego Movie—before he moved on and took a job with the federal government.

That roommate was Steve Mnuchin, who is now the United States secretary of the Treasury and, in addition to all his other duties, is one of three directors on the board of a government agency called the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp., which takes over funding and administering workers’ pensions when their former employers go out of business and/or file for bankruptcy...."