Swamp Watch: Trump's Top Banking Regulator Heads Back to His Wall Street Clients
“I haven’t really even heard a negative word," says Keith Noreika of Wall Street's review of his tenure regulating banks for the Trump administration.
David Dayen
David Dayen is the executive editor of The American Prospect. His latest book, “Monopolized: Life in the Age of Corporate Power,” was released in July 2020.
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