US SEC inspector general Kotz leaving
The Star Wednesday 18th January, 2012
WASHINGTON: David Kotz, the tough internal watchdog at the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), is leaving the agency at the end of January to join a private investigative service. Kotz, 45, probed everything from the agency's failure to catch convicted Ponzi swindler Bernard Madoff to bungled SEC contracts and even pornography-watching by ...
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