The following is an excerpt from Larry Doyle's article, which was published in full earlier today.
So, Mr. President, got any [expletitive deleted] or will it be more of the same on this front? Who should be the next SEC chair? Who will be the next SEC chair? Allow me to put forth the following list of potential candidates:
- Richard Ketchum, current head of FINRA . . . . indication that talk is cheap and nothing will change in the crony capitalism.
- Preet Bharara, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York…a sheep in wolf’s clothing…
- Gary Gensler, head of the CFTC….as our reader Hawk characterized him, a “gun-and-mask guy at CFTC”… has the Goldman pedigree.
- David Roth, dog catcher in Chicago, Illinois
- Gary Agguire, former SEC attorney who took the organization on and utilized the FOIA to make the case against high profile hedge fund manager Art Samberg at Pequot. A true patriot.
- Eliot Spitzer, take-no-prisoners former AG and governor in New York….”keep your pants on”…
- William Francis Galvin, Secretary of State in Massachusetts and relentless in pursuing fraudsters
- William Black, former bank regulator and tireless critic of the crony capitalists.
- Sheila Bair, former head of the FDIC
- David Kotz, former Inspector General of the SEC who got run out of town for being too hard on Mary and her minions.
- Neil Barofsky, Inspector General of the SIGTARP. He took Tim Geithner to task in his book, Bailout.
- Whomever Larry Fink, Jamie Dimon, Lloyd Blankfein and the rest of the boys on Wall Street want. They ‘pay the bills’ and throw the parties, right?
- Robert Wolf, Barack’s buddy formerly from UBS. Worth a chuckle, right? Barack will not have any problem finding a golf partner.
- Jon Corzine…he’s looking for work and has experience in understanding how frauds work.
- Write in candidates…whom have I overlooked?
Whom do readers think will be the next head of the SEC? Whom would readers want to see as the next head of the SEC?
My gut instinct tells me that Bharara will be the guy and sold to the American public as America’s tough financial cop.
So, who will it be? Tell me what you think.