Former Treasury Department official Neel Kashkari helped create the TARP program, and then he escaped from Washington.
NEVADA COUNTY, CALIF. — He wears no coat though it’s freezing, shines no light though it’s near midnight, carries no shotgun though he’s tramping on the pine-needled tracks of black bears.
He wants to be lost in these woods.
“Come on, you bums,” Neel Kashkari calls to his dogs, two giant Newfoundlands. “Boys, let’s go.”
He is walking through the smoke of a controlled burn in the Sierra Nevadas. He is talking about the people and the life he left behind in Washington….
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