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Pat McHenry: “Let me conclude by saying if the SEC has no one who could understand the Bernie Madoff trading strategy, how are they…”

On the recordJuly 13, 2009
Let me conclude by saying if the SEC has no one who could understand the Bernie Madoff trading strategy, how are they possibly going to be able to understand a private corporation and its counterparty's decision to mitigate business risk?
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Pat McHenry
Republican · North Carolina

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McHenry questions the SEC's capability to understand complex financial strategies.

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