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May 20, 2015
Email Shows How Credit Suisse Works the Revolving Door
Bloomberg has reviewed an email in which Melanie Nussdorf, a former Department of Labor (DOL) lawyer who now represents Credit Suisse, repeated “thank you” 600 times in an email to DOL after getting a favorable response from her former agency.
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March 12, 2015
By Jacob Marx
Party Like It’s 2007: IG Blasts Fannie Mae over Risk Management
Failing to change the culture and quality of risk auditing could cause Fannie Mae to repeat the mistakes of the financial crisis.
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Topics: Government Accountability
November 21, 2014
Treasury Nominee Eligible for “Revolving Door” Rewards
Antonio Weiss, President Obama’s nominee for a senior post at the Treasury Department, could receive a variety of financial benefits from his current Wall Street employer if he’s confirmed for the position, according to newly posted ethics records.
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Topics: Financial Sector
October 15, 2014
POGO Speaks at National Government Ethics Summit
POGO investigator Michael Smallberg was a featured speaker at the National Government Ethics Summit hosted by the U.S. Office of Government Ethics last month. He spoke to more than 300 senior ethics officials about the revolving door and "regulatory captur
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Topics: Government Accountability
April 25, 2014
How the Clinton Team Thwarted Effort to Regulate Derivatives
In April 1998, a decade before a historic crisis wreaked havoc on global financial markets, an obscure regulator saw a potential gap in the government’s oversight of Wall Street and tried to do something about it.
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Topics: Financial Sector
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