Former Goldman Sachs Executives Testify on Financial Crisis

WASHINGTON, DC - April 27: Daniel L. Sparks, former partner and head of the Mortgages Department at Goldman Sachs Group Inc., looking up an item in an exhibit book, Joshua S. Birnbaum, former managing director of Structured Products Group Trading at Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Michael J. Swenson, managing director of Structured Products Group Trading at Goldman Sachs Group Inc., and Fabrice P. Tourre, executive director of Structured Products Group Trading at Goldman Sachs Group Inc., testify during the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Subcommittee on Permanent Investigations hearing on Wall Street and the financial crisis. (Photo by Scott J. Ferrell/Congressional Quarterly/Getty Images)