Steve Bannon sunk $60M of Goldman Sachs' money into a failed World of Warcraft goldfarming scheme
by Cory Doctorow from on (#2C4NR)
I missed this story when it was published last Labor Day, but hey: when Steve Bannon was you know, a regular joe working for a scrappy, much-loved, all-American firm called Goldman Sachs, he directed a $60m investment in a company called Internet Gaming Entertainment, which was a marketplace for buying and selling World of Warcraft gold, ground out of the game by botmasters and sweatshop gold-farmers. (more")