Cohn Said to Join Lasry for White House Meet on Fiscal Cliff
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White House officials met with Wall Street executives to urge them to pressure Congress for a deal to avert the so-called fiscal cliff of spending cuts and tax increases, according to two people familiar with the session.
Marc Lasry, managing partner and founder of Avenue Capital Group LLC, and Gary D. Cohn, president of Goldman Sachs Group Inc., were among the executives who gathered at the White House yesterday with Valerie Jarrett, President Barack Obama’s senior adviser, according to the people familiar with the meeting. Obama wasn’t present for yesterday’s gathering, said the people, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to discuss it publicly.