# Professor Roy Smith on Goldman Sachs's hiring of former FBI agent Patrick Carroll

1 Faculty News May 26, 2015 ![Bloomberg logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/bloomberg.jpg?itok=7lKHn1Sf)>

Excerpt from [Bloomberg](http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-05-26/goldman-s-new-cop-is-fbi-agent-who-put-away-madoff-rajaratnam) -- "'It’s really about how Goldman is reacting to the tidal wave of litigation that now seems to be part of the ongoing government toolkit for regulating banks,' said [Roy Smith](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/roy-smith), a professor of finance at New York University’s Stern School of Business and a former Goldman Sachs partner. 'It can help to have some people who know how government prosecutors and investigators think, some guy who has the mindset of an alligator.'"

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Additional coverage appeared on [Fortune](https://fortune.com/2015/05/26/goldman-sachs-hire-fbi-agent/).