Originally Posted By: Dogfish
I remember the one conversation I had with Ken Lewis about a year before I left B of A. Arrogant SOB, and he was working under Hugh McColl.

Once he and McColl and their Nations Bank took over, they gutted Bank of America and most of the intelligence left that bank, including me.


In January, Bank of America received an additional $20 billion from the government — on top of $25 billion it already received — that the bank said it needed to help offset the losses it was absorbing from the Merrill acquisition. The additional support was provided as Lewis showed misgivings about completing the deal to acquire Merrill.


Dogfish-

with your insight, does the boldtype sentence sound truthful, that Lewis was reluctant?
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