Word: inspector
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...Committee ended up holding three hearings, and in early August issued - jointly with the Finance Committee - a damning, 108-page report that largely backs up Aguirre's allegations of outside interference in an SEC investigation. In highlighting institutional deference to Wall Street bigwigs, arbitrary personnel practices and a dysfunctional inspector general's office, the report seriously calls into question how effectively the SEC is carrying out its mission of policing U.S. capital markets, especially at a time when new opportunities for insider trading are proliferating...
...objections to the "special treatment" afforded to John Mack. Grassley complained that "Mack's prominence protected him from the initial SEC inquiry, protection that would not have been afforded him had he been from Main Street rather than Wall Street." The Senator also lambasted the SEC's inspector general for having made "no attempt to conduct a serious, credible investigation" of Aguirre's allegations. Rather than a critical mechanism for airing staff concerns, the report argues, the IG is regarded by some as "a tool of management, used for retaliatory investigations against disfavored staff...
Farmer John says that the gesture pays respect to farming tradition, but adds that he is not fully qualified as an inspector...
...Chief Inspector Lee (Chan) has been assigned to guard the Chinese Ambassador to the U.S. against a death threat by Hong Kong triads. The ambassador is murdered by an assailant named Kenji (Hiroyuki Sanada), whom Lee tracks down but can't bring himself to kill because decades ago they were in the same orphanage. Detective Carter (Tucker), demoted to traffic cop, hooks up with Lee and wheedles his way into a trip to Paris, where an international dignitary (Max von Sydow) has given them the mission to hunt down the triad gang and its secret boss. Anyone who's seen...
...Local Parisian color is provided by some unusual suspects: director Roman Polanski as a police inspector with a sideline in proctology; Noemie Lenoir as a chanteuse whom Carter has a dalliance with before suspecting that she's a female impersonator ("I went to second base with a man! It's The Crying Games! I'm Brokeback Carter!"); and actor-director Yvan Attal (My Wife Is an Actress) playing a cab driver who switches from anti-Americanism to pro-Hollywoodism once he becomes embroiled in one of the Lee-Carter chase scenes. "Now I know what...