The Goldman Sachs Muppet Man gets a million plus for memoir

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Greg Smith, formerly of Goldman Sachs, is not pictured.

In 12 years at Goldman Sachs, Greg Smith was probably already being lavishly rewarded (and by "probably" I mean "undoubtedly"). He quit the controversial investment bank in spectacular fashion, via an op-ed in the New York Times. Now he's scored a $1.5 million book deal. This is from The Wrap:

The former investment banker nabbed a $1.5 million advance from Hachette Book Group this week for a memoir based on his time at the firm, according to a report in the New York Post. 

A spokesperson for the publisher did not immediately respond to requests for comment, and Smith's agent Peter [sic] Fedorko declined to comment. 

The Post reports that Hachette beat out Penguin for rights to Smith's debut book. 

There's a little publishing inside baseball there at the end. All it means is that Smith's book was so coveted that it inspired a bidding war. 

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