Ed Perlmutter (D-CO) is a committee member of the 116th Congress U.S. House Committee on Financial Services. Perlmutter is an American politician and the U.S. Representative for Colorado’s 7th congressional district, serving since 2007. Perlmutter was a Colorado State Senator from 1995 to 2003. He graduated from the University of Colorado Boulder (BA, JD).
Subject: Emanuel Cleaver
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Emanuel Cleaver II (D-MO) is a committee member of the 116th Congress U.S. House Committee on Financial Services. He is a United Methodist pastor and an American politician who is a member of the U.S. House of Representatives. Cleaver represents Missouri’s 5th congressional district, elected in 2005. The district includes the southern three-fourths of Kansas City. Cleaver is a member of the Democratic Party, and in January 2010, he became chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, a position he held until 2019. Cleaver served on the Kansas City Council from 1979 to 1991, until he was elected Mayor, serving from 1991 to 1999.
U.S. House Banking Committee on Financial Services
Subject: Al Green
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Al Green (D-TX) is a committee member of the 116th Congress U.S. House Committee on Financial Services. He is an American lawyer and politician. Green has served in Congress as the Representative for Texas’s 9th congressional district since 2005. Green is a member of the Democratic Party. He attended Florida A&M University and Tuskegee University. He received a Juris Doctor degree, in 1974 from Thurgood Marshall School of Law at Texas Southern University. After law school, Green co-founded the law firm of Green, Wilson, Dewberry, and Fitch. In 1978, Green was elected justice of the peace in Harris County, Texas. He held this position for 26 years before retiring in 2004.
U.S. House Banking Committee on Financial Services
Subject: David Scott
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David Albert Scott (D-GA) – is a committee member of the 116th Congress U.S. House Committee on Financial Services. is the U.S. Representative for Georgia’s 13th congressional district, serving since 2003. The district includes the southern fourth of Atlanta, as well as several of its suburbs to the south and west. He is a member of the Democratic Party. He received a bachelor’s degree in finance from Florida A&M University, and a master’s degree in business from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
U.S. House Banking Committee on Financial Services
Subject: William Lacy Clay, Jr.
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William Lacy Clay Jr. (D-MO) is a committee member of the 116th Congress U.S. House Committee on Financial Services. He is a member of the Democratic Party. He is an American politician who is the U.S. Representative from Missouri’s 1st congressional district, serving since 2001. The district is based in the city of St. Louis and includes most of northern St. Louis County (North County). He graduated from the University of Maryland, College Park (BA).
Subject: Gregory W. Meeks
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Gregory W. Meeks (D-NY) is a committee member of the 116th Congress U.S. House Committee on Financial Services. Meeks is an American politician serving as the U.S. Representative for New York’s 5th congressional district since 1998. He is a member of the Democratic Party. He previously worked as an Assistant District Attorney and for the Special Narcotics Prosecutor for the City of New York before joining the Investigations Commission on official misconduct and organized crime. He then was Supervising Judge for the New York State Workers Compensation System. Meeks was a member of the New York State Assembly (31st D.) from 1993 to 1998, sitting in the 190th, 191st, and 192nd New York State Legislatures. Meeks graduated from Adelphi University (BA) and Howard University (JD).
Subject: Brad Sherman
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Brad Sherman (D-CA) is a committee member of the 116th Congress U.S. House Committee on Financial Services. Sherman is an American politician serving as a member of the United States House of Representatives. A Democrat, Sherman is in his 12th term as a congressman, having served since 1997. He currently represents California’s 30th congressional district within the San Fernando Valley, in Los Angeles County and the eastern Simi Hills in Ventura County. He previously represented the state’s 24th and 27th congressional districts, located in Los Angeles County. He graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles (B.A.), Harvard University (J.D.)
Subject: Nydia M. Velázquez
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Nydia M. Velázquez (D-NY) is a committee member of the 116th Congress U.S. House Committee on Financial Services. She is a Puerto Rican-American politician serving in the United States House of Representatives since 1993. Velázquez, a Democrat from New York was the chair of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus until January 3, 2011. Her district, located in New York City, was numbered the 12th district from 1993 to 2013 and has been numbered the 7th district since 2013. In 1976, Velázquez received an M.A. in political science from New York University. She subsequently served as an instructor of political science at the University of Puerto Rico at Humacao from 1976 to 1981. After returning to New York City, Velázquez was an adjunct professor of Puerto Rican studies at Hunter College from 1981 to 1983.
Subject: Carolyn B. Maloney
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Carolyn B. Maloney (D-NY) is a committee member of the 116th Congress U.S. House Committee on Financial Services. She is an American politician serving as the U.S. Representative for New York’s 12th congressional district since 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, she is in her 14th term in Congress, having represented the state’s 14th congressional district from 1993 until redistricting in 2013, and the 12th from 2013 to the present. Maloney, for several years, she worked as a teacher and an administrator for the New York City Board of Education. In 1977, she obtained a job working for the New York State Legislature and held senior staff positions in both the State Assembly and the State Senate. She graduated from Greensboro College (BA).
Subject: Maxine Waters
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Maxine Moore Waters (D-CA) is currently the chairwoman of the 116th Congress U.S. House Committee on Financial Services. She is an American politician serving as the U.S. Representative for California’s 43rd congressional district since 1991. The district, numbered as the 29th district from 1991–1993 and as the 35th district from 1993 to 2013. Waters is a member of the Democratic Party and is currently in her 15th term in the House. Before becoming a U.S. Representative, Waters served in the California State Assembly, to which she was first elected in 1976. Waters received her Bachelors Degree in Sociology in 1971 at Los Angeles State College (now California State University, Los Angeles), where she received a bachelor’s degree in sociology in 1971.
Subject: Dennis T. Palmeri
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Dennis T. Palmeri was a former top Shearson Lehman Hutton Inc. executive, who plead guilty to criminal charges in a broad government investigation of the stock-loan industry that also involves other brokerages. Palmeri was in charge of stock loans. The case was said to be derived from information from jailed speculator Ivan F. Boesky, a major source of evidence for Wall Street securities investigations since he was ensnared in an insider trading probe in 1986. Palmeri received illegal kickbacks while head of the stock-loan operation. Palmeri began working at Shearson in 1979. He resigned June 28, 1989. He had supervised a department that specializes in lending blocks of stock mostly to large institutional investors and speculators.
Media: Lucy Komisar
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Lucy Komisar is a New York City-based investigative journalist. She writes about offshore banking, corporate secrecy, international money laundering, and how they relate to corporate fraud; international corruption; the looting by dictators; financing of terrorism; international crime including arms, drug and people trafficking; and tax evasion.She has published several important books as well as reports, and many award-winning articles that set a gold standard for reporting with intelligence and integrity on white collar financial crime.
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Subject: Benito Romano
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Benito Romano (born 1950) was the first Puerto Rican to hold the United States Attorney’s post in New York on an interim basis. On February 1, 1989, Romano was named the interim replacement for Giuliani as the Federal prosecutor in Manhattan.He graduated from New York University with a Bachelor of Arts in 1972. In 1976, he graduated from Columbia University Law School earning his Juris Doctor law degree, becoming the first member of his family to go to college. In 1977, he was admitted to the New York Bar. Romano is a partner at Freeh Sporkin & Sullivan, LLP, part of the New York office, having joined the firm in May 2018. Prior to joining the firm, Benito was a partner at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer U.S. LLP, the Litigation Practice Group, where he was a partner since 2009.
Subject: Otto G. Obermaier
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Otto George Obermaier (born April 16, 1936) was the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York from September 1989 until February 1993. He was appointed to this position by George H. W. Bush. Obermaier was raised in Manhattan. He received a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Manhattan College. After this Obermaier became an examiner for the United States Patent Office and studied law at the Georgetown University Law Center. He later served as a law clerk to Judge Richard H. Levet. During the 1960s Obermaier was an assistant district attorney under Robert M. Morgenthau. Obermaier served for a time as a chief trial counsel for the Securities and Exchange Commission. He was also an associate counsel to the Knapp Commission. In 2006, he established a law firm with John S. Martin Jr., also a former United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York.
Subject: Mary Jo White
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Mary Jo White is an American attorney who served as the 31st Chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) from 2013 to 2017. She was the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, serving from 1993 to 2002. On January 24, 2013, President Barack Obama nominated White to replace Elisse B. Walter as Chair of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. She was confirmed by the Senate on April 8, 2013 and was sworn into office on April 10, 2013. On November 14, 2016, White announced she would step down from her SEC position at the end of the president’s term and is now the Senior Chair at Debevoise & Plimpton. She received a bachelor of arts from the College of William & Mary in 1970. She earned an master of arts in psychology in 1971 from The New School for Social Research and a Juris Doctor degree from Columbia Law School in 1974.
