By Zach Lowe
In retrospect, we wish we had kept count of how many times Jones Day‘s Robert Gaffey asked Barclays president Robert Diamond to stick to just “yes” or “no” in answering Gaffey’s questions Monday about the alleged $11 billion windfall Barclays got when it purchased Lehman Brothers’ North American operations a week after Lehman went bankrupt. We’d estimate Gaffey made the request more than 100 times during three hours of questioning Diamond, who was determined not to let Gaffey pin him down and often answered well beyond the bounds of Gaffey’s questions–a habit that clearly irritated Judge James Peck.
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