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...chairwoman of the besieged Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), took her first steps this week in shaking up the agency. She simultaneously secured an agreement with Bernard Madoff, worked on gaining tips about two more Ponzi schemes and waved goodbye to her chief enforcement officer, Linda Thomsen, who resigned...
Last weekend, reports began circulating of Thomsen's departure, just a few days after House Financial Services Committee members ripped her for failing to spot Madoff's alleged $50 billion Ponzi scheme and ignoring nine years of whistle-blower tips about the scam. (See pictures of the demise of Bernard Madoff...
...surprisingly, Thomsen's "dead man walking" status officially changed late Monday, when the SEC announced that its top cop had decided to call it quits and return to the private sector. Thomsen joined the agency in 1995 and became its enforcement chief...
...replacement for Thomsen was named, but experts agree that Schapiro needs a tough-as-nails enforcer to help remake the agency's image. The top mention to fill the spot is Robert Khuzami, a former federal prosecutor. He is currently a managing director and general counsel at Deutsche Bank. Khuzami spent 11 years at the U.S. Attorney's office in Manhattan, where he headed the white-collar crime unit, before taking a job at Deutsche Bank in 2002. The SEC declined to comment on a possible replacement for Thomsen; Khuzami's office did not comment either...
...Aguirre thought this was reason enough to depose Mack, and his supervisors initially seemed supportive, until outside lawyers started contacting them, including enforcement division director Linda Thomsen, and her deputy Paul Berger. Aguirre's supervisors have all denied to Congress they were influenced by anyone, and insist they had a principled objection to taking Mack's testimony, largely because it was insufficiently supported by existing evidence...