The four banks most affected by the banking and financial crisis are also represented in the US Central Bank Federal Reserve as shareholders, whose chairman was the Federal Reserve Bank of New York Geithner, which was important in this context. In this function, Geithner was responsible for lace up rescue packages for the financial houses together with the then finance minister Paulson and Fed Chairman Bernanke. However, this did not happen for the investment bank Lehman Brothers. As a finance minister, he was responsible for the more than $ 800 billion in the economic stimulus package under Obama in 2009.