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Did Merrill Lynch Wait Till The Last Minute To Tell Dan Sontag That Sallie Krawcheck Was His New Boss?

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When did former Merrill Lynch brokerage head Dan Sontag learn that Sallie Krawcheck was being brought in as his boss?

A source close to the matter tells us that Sontag learned of Krawcheck’s hire just minutes before the hire was publicly…