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Mike Conaway: “Chairman Gensler, do you have any reason to believe the CFTC would have uncovered this fraud sooner had it been tasked…”

On the recordJuly 24, 2012
Chairman Gensler, do you have any reason to believe the CFTC would have uncovered this fraud sooner had it been tasked with the audit of Peregrine instead of the NFA?
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Mike Conaway
Texas

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Conaway questions the effectiveness of the CFTC's auditing authority.

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