Goldman Sachs sends negative votes
(16 February 2010 – UK) The ‘Robin Hood Tax’ campaign, set up by 48 non-profit organisations, has claimed that it received 4,600 negative votes over a 20 minute period coming from only two computers; one located at the investment bank Goldman Sachs.
Technical staff for the campaign said that the sites tally of negative votes jumped suddenly from 1,400 to 6,000 before the sites spam security was tightened.
A Goldman Sachs spokesman told reporters that the bank had only just received this information and would now undertake a full investigation.
The online campaign, calling for the introduction of 0.05 percent tax on banking transactions, has garnered considerable celebrity backing, including Four Weddings and a Funeral writer Richard Curtis and Love Actually actor Bill Nighy.
The Robin Hood site has discounted the suspect votes. Currently, around 25000 people have voted ‘yes’ to the idea with 3000 voting ‘no’.
A Goldman Sachs spokesman told reporters that the bank had only just received this information and would now undertake a full investigation.
The online campaign, calling for the introduction of 0.05 percent tax on banking transactions, has garnered considerable celebrity backing, including Four Weddings and a Funeral writer Richard Curtis and Love Actually actor Bill Nighy.
The Robin Hood site has discounted the suspect votes. Currently, around 25000 people have voted ‘yes’ to the idea with 3000 voting ‘no’.
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