Talk:Harvey Pitt

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This sounds like a press release:

"...an aggressive regulator, going after the greed, excesses and failures rampant in the last decade of the 20th century which surfaced on his watch. He led the SEC in restoring the Nation's securities markets to full operations after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and instituted a policy of "real time enforcement" to make the SEC's enforcement efforts more effective."

OCNative 10:11, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

This page definitely needs some work. I can't pretend to be qualified to evaluate Harvey Pitt's life work, but he was the fellow who delivered the notorious speech before the CPA's organization implying that aggressive accounting would be tolerated shortly before the collapse of Enron and Arthur Anderson. I'll try to pull together something which acknowledges this without undercutting whatever contributions Harvey Pitt may have made. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Phineas bounderby (talk • contribs) 04:20, 22 January 2008 (UTC)

Yea this sounds like it was written by Pitt himself. Anyone ever watch this Frontline --> http://pbs.gen.in/wgbh/pages/frontline//shows/regulation/ - before he was SEC chairman, Pitt was a lobbyist for the accounting industry. As their lobbyist, he was a key operator in the movement to keep executive stock options off corporate balance sheets. This was shortly before the collapse of Enron, Global Crossing, et al. Then, after he was picked to be SEC Chairman, he continued to stall accounting reforms in Congress and told legislators to take it easy on the industry. As Chairman was worse than a do-nothing! He actually went out after state regulators who were picking up the slack he left by not enforcing the securities laws. (See this story --> http://dir.salon.com/story/news/col/huff/2002/05/07/merrill_lynch/ ) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.113.42.23 (talk) 04:00, 10 June 2008 (UTC)