Mary Jo White Refusing to Settle "London Whale" Case Without Admission of Wrongoing

[Recursion]

http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2013/08/09/london_whale_admission_of_wrongdoing_required.html

The haters won't admit it, but we continue to see evidence of a more rigorous effort at financial regulation from the Obama administration in the second term as settlements talks with JP Morgan are being held up by the Securities and Exchange Commission insisting on an admission of wrongdoing in the London Whale matter. Mary Joe White, the new SEC chief appointed at the beginning of the year, has vowed to put an end to settlements in which the perpetrators "neither admit nor deny" that they've done anything wrong, and we see her sticking to her guns.

As I said at the time, this strikes me as an important change of posture in terms of institutional culture. There's a difference between a regulatory agency that sees itself as as prosecuting wrongdoers versus one that sees itself as doing a kind of fussy checkbox compliance. White, a former criminal prosecutor, is trying to make it more the former.

Haters gotta hate...

[Egalitarian Thug]

1. K&R For good news, despite using it to promote more divisiveness. n/t

[Benton D Struckcheon]

2. Hmm. I was skeptical about her. This might be something to watch. n/t

[hlthe2b]

3. Mary Jo White has given us plenty of reason for skepticism with respect to HER record...

I'm glad to see this, but not your divisive comments.