Articles written by Marcy Gordon Tom Raum Associated Press Writers Washington

MARCY GORDON TOM RAUM Associated Press Writers WASHINGTON

To p Goldman Sachs officials defended their conduct in the financial crisis this morning, flatly disputing the government's fraud allegations against the giant financial house. "I did not mislead" investors, insisted a trading executive at the heart of the government's case. But they ran into a wall of bipartisan wrath before a Senate panel investigating Goldman's role in the financial crisis and the Securities and Exchange Commission fraud suit against it and one of its traders. Democratic Sen. Carl Levin of Michigan accused...