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Topic: Crimefighter Mary Jo White to
patrol Street as SEC head |
Crimefighter Mary Jo White to
patrol Street as SEC head
New York Post, by Kaja Whitehouse
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Posted By:JoniTx, 1/25/2013 11:42:04 AM
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| The regulatory forecast for Wall Street is in — the cold snap’s over and it’s going to be hot with an increased chance of enforcement actions. That outlook popped up on the radar screens yesterday after President Obama nominated Mary Jo White, a tough-as-nails former prosecutor, as the head of the Securities and Exchange Commission. If confirmed by the Senate, White, who wiped the Teflon from John Gotti by winning a murder conviction against the mobster, would be the first prosecutor to lead the securities regulator. “We need to keep going after irresponsible behavior in the financial industry
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
RightShoe, 1/25/2013 11:45:47 AM (No. 9138730)
She can start with Jon Corzine.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
mitzi, 1/25/2013 11:47:26 AM (No. 9138738)
Some people whose opinion I respect and who have worked with her, have a lot of confidence in White.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
ocjim, 1/25/2013 11:49:08 AM (No. 9138745)
A fine, no nonsense choice. It only took Obama four years to make a nomination I can endorse.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
enemyofthestate, 1/25/2013 11:49:49 AM (No. 9138746)
She looks like Moe of the Three Stooges. With no sense of humor, probably.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
msjena, 1/25/2013 11:51:52 AM (No. 9138754)
I thought the Gotti conviction was obtained by the US Atty in Brooklyn. Whatever the case, she has earned respect as a prosecutor. The SEC performs a valuable function in preventing fraud but in the process, imposes a lot of burdens on businesses.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
DanvilleBill, 1/25/2013 12:15:33 PM (No. 9138808)
From everything I´ve ever heard, an excellent choice. Maybe the only good choice zero has ever made.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Chuzzles, 1/25/2013 12:15:33 PM (No. 9138809)
As long as she goes after actual fraud and cheating, I am cool with her. Don´t forget the prosecutors who have gone after people just to advance their careers, when said victims of their attacks had done nothing illegal.
And given that this is coming from Obama, I am very uneasy.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
tnorling, 1/25/2013 12:43:36 PM (No. 9138887)
Very selective in her prosecutions it seems. If you´re a union thug or dem, you will likely be safe. Republican financiers should watch their backs, however. Just another partisan hack and Obama flack, I suggest, and, like Elizabeth Warren, a legal gun for hire when a buck is to be made.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Blue-Z-Anna, 1/25/2013 12:51:03 PM (No. 9138906)
The government is quite good when going after ´organized crime´.
They do not brook any competition when it comes to organized crime.
I understand that going to law school makes people good at acting ugly, but....how is it possible that it seems to make people LOOK so small and ugly ????
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
civilservant, 1/25/2013 1:38:46 PM (No. 9139007)
And look at how well she handled the MArc Rich pardon ivestigation.......why people are still in jail over that one..........oh, wait a minute, no one was EVER held accountable for that.
Very simple: If a democrat is proposed/elected/nominated/elevated by democrats, they are dangerous to the Republic.
I´ll bet a million billion trillion skillion bazillion dollars you never hear the name ´Corzine´ outa her.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
nonsense, 1/25/2013 2:48:19 PM (No. 9139135)
She looks like a former nun, just sayin´.
I have no hope for anyone attached to this regime.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
msjena, 1/25/2013 2:49:28 PM (No. 9139138)
#11-she´s married to wealthy lawyer and was a wealthy lawyer herself.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
whyyeseyec, 1/25/2013 3:01:24 PM (No. 9139157)
She was nominated by Obama! Does anyone really think she is going to get to the bottom of anything?? She might hound a few Wall St fatcat`s but beyond that forget it.
Another `tough as nails` govn hack padding her retirement account.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
msjena, 1/25/2013 3:15:04 PM (No. 9139175)
Sorry to post again on this thread. I do not know Mary Jo White, but I do know a few things about her. She and her husband have lots of money between them. She does not need to pad a retirement account that is probably already huge (and probably well-sheltered from taxes). And why do we really care what she does at the SEC? The SEC goes after civil violations. Madoff would be a free man if it were just up to the SEC. It´s still the US attorney´s job to prosecute crimes. She may do more to implicate Dodd Frank but so would anyone Obama appointed. She´s probably not a bad choice--she is certainly familiar with the corporate world, since she and her husband have spent most of their lives, and made most of their wealth, representing corporate clients.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
ratslayer, 1/25/2013 4:37:27 PM (No. 9139321)
#10 is on it! Known as Mary Jo Molasses, she never gets around to jailing D´rats. W, for reasons known only himsel and Boy Rove put her in charge of investigating the Criminal Clintons for the "Pay for Pardons"
scheme. Some will remember De Knees Rich giving $400,000 to the Clinton Library. And Slick pardoned her husband who was convicted of tax fraud and owed $100 million. Molasses White said ...move on!
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