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...Sounds like a good cop, but SEC followers, like Columbia law professor John Coffee, says she'll need an even tougher bad cop, too, if she wants to succeed in restoring faith in the agency, and the economic system. (See the top 10 financial crisis buzzwords...
...FINRA and other self-regulators historically have played it safe in their enforcement," says Columbia's Coffee. (Self-regulatory organizations do not usually draw their authority directly from Congress, and may be financed by the industry they cover.) "FINRA's been tougher than its predecessors, but it still tends to focus more on outlying and smaller firms; it's been more deferential to the bigger players. At SEC, she has to clean house and needs truly aggressive prosecutors." (See who's to blame for the current financial crisis...
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...political litmus tests in its hiring process to its justifications for wiretapping and torture, the Justice Department was the epicenter of George W. Bush's most controversial policies. So more than any other nominee to Barack Obama's Cabinet, would-be Attorney General Eric Holder - a former District of Columbia Superior Court judge and Deputy Attorney General during Bill Clinton's presidency - should expect his time before the Senate to be a referendum on the departing President. (See who's who in Obama's White House...
Litt holds undergraduate and MBA degrees from Harvard. He spent three years as a legislative aide to the late Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan of New York and then got a law degree at Columbia. He was a judicial clerk before becoming an associate at the law firm, Paul Weiss. He joined the U.S Attorney's office in D.C. in 1998. In that office, he handled a bunch of prostitution cases, many of which went to trial. "He is kind of a nerdy guy, so watching him question all of these prostitutes and John Does in court was kind of funny...