Talk:Sheldon Whitehouse

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[edit] bad link, - nees updating, how about a RISDIC page too?

Whitehouse worked as Rhode Island Governor Bruce Sundlun's Executive Counsel beginning in 1991, and was later tapped to serve as Director of Policy. He oversaw the state's response to the RISDIC banking crisis [8]

<---- the [8] is a bad link.

http://www.uri.edu/library/special_collections/registers/political_papers/sundlun/seriesV.html

Further, More needs to be said about the R.I.S.D.I.C. scandal. This was a rough time for a lot of Rhode Islanders. They had money, but were unable to get it because the state's depisit insurance company (RISDIC) was either broke, unfunded, or whatever. I cannot remember now. It was a REALLY significant banking crisis in the 1990's. There is a lesson from this scandal that we all need to know. Let's start a page about it, and also put more detail about Sheldon Whitehouse's role in overseeing the crisis. I remember this being a criminal scandal involving RI state officials. Many innocent people lost everything because of their $$ disappearing!

---Jf (talk) 12:06, 29 January 2008 (UTC)