{"id":4405,"date":"2013-01-31T21:09:34","date_gmt":"2013-01-31T20:09:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/?p=4405"},"modified":"2013-01-31T22:49:49","modified_gmt":"2013-01-31T21:49:49","slug":"cop-or-suspect-tough-decisions-in-anti-corruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/cop-or-suspect-tough-decisions-in-anti-corruption\/","title":{"rendered":"Cop or Suspect?  Tough Decisions in Anti-Corruption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the surface, the nomination of Mary Jo White to head the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) by President Barack Obama ticks all the requisite boxes. Currently the head of litigation at Debevoise &amp; Plimpton, a private law firm, Ms White will add a female voice to Mr Obama&#8217;s second-term team, which is so far dominated by men. More importantly, the former federal prosecutor for the Southern District of New York has experience policing Wall Street, which fell under her jurisdiction. \u00a0But the appointment is not without controversy. \u00a0The Bloomberg site\u00a0notes that Ms White participated in the defence of many people and institutions at the heart of the financial collapse. In October 2008 she was cited in a critical report by the SEC\u2019s inspector general for receiving \u201crelevant information\u201d that was not publicly available. \u00a0 Is she a poacher turned gamekeeper or simply setting herself up for another lucrative turn through the revolving door? \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/blogs\/schumpeter\/2013\/01\/mary-jo-white?fsrc=nlw|wwb|1-31-2013|4826010|85786623|NA\" target=\"_blank\">Article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/blogs\/schumpeter\/2013\/01\/mary-jo-white?fsrc=nlw|wwb|1-31-2013|4826010|85786623|NA\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4416 aligncenter\" alt=\"Mary jo White-2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Mary-jo-White-2-300x168.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Mary-jo-White-2-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Mary-jo-White-2-500x281.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Mary-jo-White-2.jpg 590w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the surface, the nomination of Mary Jo White to head the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) by President Barack Obama ticks all the requisite boxes. Currently the head of litigation at Debevoise &amp; Plimpton, a private law firm, Ms &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/cop-or-suspect-tough-decisions-in-anti-corruption\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4405"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4417,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4405\/revisions\/4417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}