Citigroup's Thomas Maheras

Bloomberg, Justin Baer, 5 September 2006Thomas Maheras was in his New York office at Citigroup Inc. one August morning in 1999 when he got an urgent message from Co-Chief Executive Officer Sanford Weill. The bank's arbitrage trading desk in London had made bad bets on long- term U.K. bonds and was hemorrhaging money. ``I had to get on the next plane,'' Maheras says. ``It was a command performance