Posted on 04/11/2018 8:25:38 AM PDT by ptsal
Wall Street’s crime spree has been coming at the public for the past six years like a geyser spewing from a broken water main.
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On June 28, 2006, Gary Aguirre, a former SEC attorney, testified before the U.S. Senate on the Judiciary. During his final days at the SEC, Aguirre had pressed to serve a subpoena on John Mack, the powerful former official at Morgan Stanley. Aguirre wanted to take testimony about Mack’s potential involvement in insider trading. Mack was protected — Aguirre was fired via a phone call while on vacation — just three days after contacting the Office of Special Counsel to discuss the filing of a complaint about the SEC’s protection of Mack.
In 2011 another SEC lawyer, Darcy Flynn, told Congressional investigators and the SEC Inspector General that for at least 18 years, the SEC had been shredding documents and emails related to its investigations ...
(Excerpt) Read more at wallstreetonparade.com ...
The fourth attorney was an anonymous whistleblower inside the SEC, but it would behoove the Senate to seek out his or her testimony – even if it is presented without revealing his or her name. On September 27, 2011, the SEC Inspector General released a report revealing that this anonymous attorney at the SEC had sent a letter to the Inspector General, blowing the whistle on the former SEC Director of Enforcement, Robert Khuzami. The whistleblower was complaining about Khuzami’s handling of charges that Citigroup executives had intentionally misled public investors about its exposure to subprime mortgages, understating the amount by $37 billion in the fall of 2007.
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