David Sokol

• Sokol accused of misleading Buffett on trades

  Berkshire Hathaway directors have accused David L Sokol, once considered a possible successor to Warren E Buffett, of misleading the company about his personal stake in a lubricant manufacturer that Berkshire recently agreed to acquire. Sokol, who resigned in March, never told Buffett that he had bought his stake in Lubrizol after Citigroup ...

• It's excuses all the way for Warren Buffett

  Whenever the world’s greatest investor gets in a tight squeeze, he straps on his angel wings, readjusts his halo, and leans on his reputation for avuncular straight talk to make the problem go away. Warren Buffett did it in the early-1990s, when one of his holdings at the time, Salomon Brothers, was caught in a Treasury bond scandal. H...

• Is Warren Buffett’s handling of deputy baffling?

  Warren E Buffett’s carefully cultivated image risks being tarnished. Buffett is an old-school capitalist with a rock star’s aura, a global celebrity who is revered like a small-town hero. Yet that carefully cultivated image — the envy of nearly every top executive — risks being tarnished by a disclosure that he knew o...

• David Sokol, potential successor of Warren Buffett resigns

  David Sokol has abruptly resigned from Berkshire Hathaway, the company run by the billionaire Warren E. Buffett, raising major questions about the future stewardship of the conglomerate. Mr. Sokol, 54, was long considered to be a leading candidate to take over from Mr. Buffett, now 80. The question of succession has been a concern to Berksh...