Reporter covering financial crime & such @Reuters and rarely on Twitter. Have a tip? Find me on Signal at chrisprentice.18

Joined August 2009
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WilmerHale has hired longtime U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission lawyer Sam Waldon as a partner in Washington, the latest in the law firm's string of hires of veterans of the top U.S. markets regulator. reuters.com/legal/government…
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EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification. I glanced down at the message. “Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began. So began my text exchange with the top prosecutor for the Eastern District of Virginia. lawfaremedia.org/article/ann…
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A quote I expect we'll see Roman Storm's lawyers cite in their push to get the one charge on which he was convicted tossed: "Our view is that merely writing code, without ill-intent, is not a crime." Story by @ChrisPrentice reuters.com/sustainability/b…
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NEW: Interviewed ex DOGE staffer who said: * DOGE is likely to fizzle now that Musk is out. "It's like kids joining a startup that will go out of business in 4 months." * Objectives at DOGE were unclear and communication poor. "I got dropped into the VA with an HP laptop. What are we supposed to do? What is the road map?...I felt like I was being pranked." * Steve Davis ran day-to-day operations while Baris Akis helped with DOGE recruitment and logistics * He was fired after speaking to media Full story here: reuters.com/world/us/without…
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NEW from @ChrisPrentice and me: The Justice Department has decided to keep in place the corporate monitors at TD Bank and Balfour Beatty, after all monitorships were paused several weeks ago amid an ongoing review on whether to end some of them early. reuters.com/sustainability/b…
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The U.S. Justice Department has paused corporate monitorships as part of an informal review into the practice of installing such firms to oversee companies that have resolved accusations of wrongdoing reuters.com/sustainability/b… by @ChrisPrentice and me
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If you are or were a federal worker (particularly with a financial regulator like the SEC or CFPB, or the DOJ), I'd like to hear from you. I'm on Signal: chrisprentice.18
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