(Bloomberg) -- New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine, the former co-chairman of Goldman Sachs Group Inc., said he hasn't discussed becoming chief executive officer at Bank of America Corp. with the Charlotte, North Carolina-based lender. "I can confirm I have not spoken with them," Corzine said today in an interview outside the Sacred Heart Basilica in Newark where he attended a mass for slain police officers. Corzine, who lost a bid for re-election to Christopher Christie, declined to say if he's interested in returning to Wall Street after leaving office next year.
"I've been reading books and never really thought about that," he said. As for his post-gubernatorial plans, "I haven't given it a great deal of thought, and when I figure it out you'll be the first to know," he said.
Bank of America, the biggest U.S. bank by assets and deposits, is searching for a CEO to replace Kenneth D. Lewis, who is retiring next month. Speculation on successors has included Corzine, 62, who left Goldman in 1999 as the firm went public. He was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2000, and resigned after winning the governor's race in November 2005.