Frontrunner for SEC Chairman Emerges
April 27, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Securities lawyer
Harvey Pitt, a former general counsel at the Securities and
Exchange Commission (SEC), has emerged as the Bush
administration's favorite for the Chairman's seat at the
nation's securities regulator.
Reported by Camilla Klein
Since leaving the SEC in 1978, he spent much of his career dueling with his former employer as a lawyer at the firm Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson.
Since former clients include Wall Street brokerages, accounting firms, the New York Stock Exchange, and defendants in insider trading cases, his nomination might raise questions over conflicts of interest.