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*That same month, [http://www.goldmansachsrmbslitigation.com/ Goldman agreed to pay $26.6 million] to settle a suit brought by the Public Employee’s Retirement System of Mississippi accusing it of defrauding investors in a 2006 offering of mortgage-backed securities.
Some [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E06EEDE1438F933A2575BC0A9649D8B63 good news for Goldman came in August 2012], when the Justice Department decided it would not proceed with a criminal investigation of the firm’s actions during the financial crisis and the SEC dropped an investigation of the firm’s role in a $1.3 billion subprime mortgage deal. All in all, Goldman has emerged largely unscathed from these controversies. Its reputation may be in tatters, but its rogue money machine keeps humming."<ref>Phil Mattera, [The Goldman Sachs Rogue Money Machine Keeps Humming http://dirtdiggersdigest.org/archives/3563], Dirt Diggers Digest, January 3, 2013.</ref>
===Role in the crisis===
