After months of fruitless searching, the White House has at last found a candidate to run the Securities and Exchange Commission (sec), the main regulator of America's financial markets. Harvey Pitt, whose nomination is expected to be announced any day now, is a Washington, dc, lawyer who built his career by getting the most powerful Wall Street firms and individuals out of some nasty scrapes-and most notably, out of distressing investigations by the sec. Will he continue to help his erstwhile clients once he takes up his new job? Or will his be a classic tale of poacher turned gamekeeper?
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