CEO Lloyd Blankfein and the rest of his Goldman Sachs bankers can now resume talking in the elevator.
The person behind the @GSElevator Twitter handle has been revealed as a 34-year-old former bond executive living in Texas named John Lefevre, according to a report in The New York Times.
The Twitter account has more than 600,000 followers and the Tweets were purportedly the uncensored conversations that have allegedly taken place inside the elevator at Goldman Sachs.
Lefevre is not a Goldman Sachs employee but was offered a job that was later rescinded. He worked at Citigroup for seven years, said the report.
“We are pleased to report that the official ban on talking in elevators will be lifted effective immediately,” a Goldman spokesman jokingly said, after being told that @GSElevator had been unmasked.
The intent of the Twitter messages was neither to “mock or glamorize Wall Street,” said Lefevre. The former bond executive has a book deal with Touchstone, a part of Simon & Schuster, from his missives on Twitter.