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Richard Fuld Jr., Chairman and CEO of Lehman Brothers Holdings, testifies before a House Oversight and Governmental Reform Committee hearing on the cause and effects of the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy in Washington on October 6, 2008. (UPI Photo/Kevin Dietsch) 
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Published: Oct. 6, 2008 at 3:36 PM
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WASHINGTON, Oct. 6 (UPI) -- Lehman Brothers Holding Inc. Chief Executive Officer Richard Fuld Jr. said regulators, the media and his own decisions contributed to the company's demise.

"With the benefit of hindsight, I can now say that I and many others were wrong," Fuld said Monday in testimony before the U.S. House of Representatives Government Reform Committee.

Fuld said Lehmann relied, in part, on Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke's relatively mild assessments of problems in the real estate market, The Wall Street Journal reported. He also said Lehman Brothers had attempted to transform itself from an investment bank to a holding company, a move that was unsuccessful.

"Had these changes been made sooner, they would have been extraordinarily helpful to Lehman Brothers," Fuld said.

Rumors about the firm's liquidity problems caused Lehman Brothers to release earnings statements before it could finalize a deal to raise capital, he said,, referring to a deal with the Korean Development Bank that never materialized.

Asked about his executive salary, Fuld said when the firm did well, executives did well and when the firm did poorly, executives didn't do well.

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