Fannie Mae’s Johnson, a ‘Pied Piper,’ Led U.S. Off Cliff: Books

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James A. Johnson cuts a powerful figure as he makes his way around Wall Street and Washington in horn-rimmed glasses.

He’s a man of prestige: vice chairman of private-equity firm Perseus LLC; head of the compensation committee at Goldman Sachs Group Inc.; former adviser to Democratic presidential aspirants including, briefly, Barack Obama.