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Wall Street revolver takes regulatory insight to Bank of America
By Ryan Sibley Apr 18, 2011 1:55 p.m.One Wall Street revolver will continue a very successful post-regulatory agency career with a newly created position at Bank of America, the nation's largest bank.
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Conflict minerals comment period delayed under corporate and congressional pressure
By Lindsay Young Feb 7, 2011 1:49 p.m.After a powerful committee chairman and several corporate interests wrote to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) requesting an extension of the comment period for the agency’s proposed regulations requiring that companies disclose when they use “conflict minerals,” the agency granted the request.
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Using TransparencyData.com to track Goldman's partners
By Bill Allison Apr 22, 2010 3:34 p.m.We all know, thanks to the Center for Responsive Politics, that Goldman Sachs is a heavy hitter--in the 2008 presidential cycle, among the top donors to both Barack Obama and John McCain, that its employees, their family members and its PAC favor Democrats in their giving by a two to one margin (and three to one in the 2008 election cycle), and Goldman Sachs has been among the top 100 donors to 286 election campaign committees for members of Congress.
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Feds: Freddie Mac should hide info from SEC
By Bill Allison Mar 27, 2009 1:28 p.m.Yesterday, we learned from the Chicago Tribune that Freddie Mac documents are not subject to the Freedom of Information Act because they contain or might compromise commercial information--that is, the proprietary insider information of a private company. Today, in the Washington Post, we learn that that private company was pressured to withhold negative information it was obligated to disclose under SEC rules. It seems that following government policy will adversely affect its bottom line, and the firm wanted to tell its remaining shareholders that.
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