 According to an article in the "Houston Chronicle", critics also worried that Abacus might undermine the position of the US "as a safe harbor for the world's investors" and that "The involvement of European interests as losers in this allegedly fixed game has attracted the attention of that region's political leaders, most notably British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who has accused Goldman of "moral bankruptcy".This is, in short, a big global story ... Is what Goldman Sachs did with its Abacus investment vehicle illegal?That will be for the courts to decide, ...