An agency ethics office has given the chief of the Securities and Exchange Commission the go-ahead to end her recusal from cases involving a major bank that was among her prior clients at a Wall Street law firm.
Mary Jo White received word in a Feb. 6 letter that waiving a part of her standard conflict-of-interest ethics pledge applying to the international bank Credit Suisse “will directly serve the public interest,” according to SEC ethics counsel Shira Pavis Minton.
via SEC Chief Given Waiver on Work for Former Client – GovExec.com