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FILE - In this Oct. 8, 2002 file photo, Mary Jo White, former U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, appears on Capitol Hill in Washington. A White House official says President Barack Obama on Thursday will nominate White as chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). (AP Photo/Dennis Cook, File) |
Top white-collar crime prosecutor to lead SEC
By JULIE PACE
AP White House Correspondent /
January 24, 2013
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White also represented the largest U.S. hospital chain, HCA, in the insider-trading investigations by the SEC and the Justice Department of former Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., whose family owned HCA. The investigations were closed in 2007 with no charges filed against Frist.
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Associated Press writers Marcy Gordon in Washington and Larry Neumeister in New York contributed to this report.
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