rollingstone.com / By Matt Taibbi / November 19, 3:10 PM ET
Move
over, adulterous generals. It might be time to make way for a new
sexual rats’nest – at America’s top financial police agency, the SEC.
In a salacious 77-page complaint that reads like Penthouse Forum meets The Insider meets the Keystone Kops,
one David Weber, the former chief investigator for the SEC Inspector
General’s office, accuses the SEC of retaliating against Weber for
coming forward as a whistleblower. According to this lawsuit, Weber was
made a target of intramural intrigues at the agency (which has a history of
such retaliation) after he came forward with concerns that his bosses
may have been spending more time copulating than they were investigating
the SEC.
Weber vs. the SEC: The Full Complaint
Weber
claims that in recent years, while the SEC Inspector General’s office
has been attempting to investigate the agency’s seemingly-negligent
responses in such matters as the Bernie Madoff case and the less-well-known (but nearly as disturbing) Stanford Financial Ponzi scandal,
two of the IG office’s senior officials – former Inspector General
David Kotz and his successor, Noelle Maloney – were sleeping together.
Weber
also claims that Kotz was also having an affair with a lawyer
representing a key group of Stanford victims, a Dr. Gaytri Kachroo.
Where the story gets really strange is where Weber claims that Maloney
last year refused to meet with Kachroo as part of the Stanford
investigation. By then, Kotz had stepped down as SEC IG and Maloney had
replaced him as Acting IG. The complaint describes Weber confronting
Maloney over the issue, asking why she wouldn’t meet with the lawyer
representing a key group of Stanford victims.
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