But keep in mind: Goldman did 25 of these so-called Abacus deals in all, and created many more CDOs without the Abacus label. Of the $550 million, the U.S. Treasury will get $300 million, and investors who lost out on this Abacus deal will get $250 million. Meanwhile, Goldman has neither admitted nor denied the SEC's fraud allegations, although Goldman did acknowledge that its marketing deals "contained incomplete information." Harvey Pitt, former chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, told me the SEC's extraction of this acknowledgement from Goldman was itself "highly unusual."