By Olivia Scheck
DNAinfo Reporter/Producer
MANHATTAN — Mayor Michael Bloomberg played coy on Monday as he admitted he had not been personally informed of President Obama's speech about financial reform at Cooper Union on Thursday.
"Well, I just saw on the blogs that he was coming, so I haven't talked to anybody in the White House," Bloomberg told reporters at a press conference in the Bronx.
While the Mayor eventually received an invitation to attend the event last night, many have speculated that the delay might have been due to his recent resistance to the White House's plans for reforming Wall Street, the paper noted.
"My concern is for our police officers and firefighters and teachers and everybody else," Bloomberg reiterated at Monday's event.
"They get paid by the taxes that the financial industry, as well as many others...in this city [pay], so my concern is that New York is not disadvantaged."
The disagreement between the Mayor and the President comes on the heels of last week's news that the Securities and Exchange Commission filed suit against Wall Street giant, Goldman Sachs, claiming that they defrauded clients out of $1 billion.
