Emails on Rule-Making for Uniform Fiduciary Standard Turn Up in Bloomberg FOIA Request
Bloomberg has a story today about a former Securities and Exchange Commission official who left the agency to work as a securities lawyer, and the cozy relationship she maintained with her former employer. It’s a long read, and a good one, reported out of FOIA’d emails between SEC employees and former agency commissioner Annette Nazareth—leaning on those emails to lift the curtain on the revolving-door phenomenon in which financial regulators leave government service for more lucrative work in service of financial firms.
The part that caught our eye concerns emails between Ms. Nazareth and David Becker, SEC general counsel and senior policy director in July 2009, and appear to concern Dodd-Frank’s specification for a uniform fiduciary standard to govern the behavior of broker-dealers and investment advisers. Read More
