{"id":21189,"date":"2011-03-14T08:13:19","date_gmt":"2011-03-14T12:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=21189"},"modified":"2011-03-14T08:13:19","modified_gmt":"2011-03-14T12:13:19","slug":"sec-chair-admits-organizations-credibility-takes-a-hit-over-former-lawyers-ties-to-bernie-madoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/03\/2011\/sec-chair-admits-organizations-credibility-takes-a-hit-over-former-lawyers-ties-to-bernie-madoff.html","title":{"rendered":"SEC chair admits organization&#8217;s credibility takes a hit over former lawyer&#8217;s ties to Bernie Madoff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NY Daily news &#8211; Faced with tough questions about why her agency&#8217;s top lawyer was allowed to write briefs and perform other legal work pertaining to\u00a0Bernie Madoff despite his personal stake in Madoff&#8217;s epic Ponzi scheme, the chairwoman of the\u00a0Securities and Exchange Commission basically pleaded ignorance.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Knowing those things now, I wish that Mr. Becker had recused himself, absolutely,&#8221; said\u00a0Mary Schapiro, who testified with four other witnesses Thursday before a subcommittee of the\u00a0House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, telling members that she hadn&#8217;t realized how much\u00a0David Becker&#8217;s participation in the contentious bankruptcy case could injure the SEC&#8217;s credibility.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/sports\/2011\/03\/10\/2011-03-10_sec_chair_admits_organizations_credibility_takes_a_hit_over_former_lawyers_ties_.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NY Daily news &#8211; Faced with tough questions about why her agency&#8217;s top lawyer was allowed to write briefs and perform other legal work pertaining to\u00a0Bernie Madoff despite his personal stake in Madoff&#8217;s epic Ponzi scheme, the chairwoman of the\u00a0Securities [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21189"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21191,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21189\/revisions\/21191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}