Are Jay Clayton's conflicts kiboshing SEC Enforcement's BABIP?
When Clayton took the SEC top spot in 2017 SEC Enforcement had to leave some big deal open investigations on base
On January 4, 2017, the day Donald Trump named Walter Joseph “Jay” Clayton III to be his head of the Securities and Exchange Commission, the SEC’s division of enforcement had five investigations open for Goldman Sachs.
RollingStone’s Matt Taibbi wrote that one former congressional aide told him the day after Trump’s pick was announced, “Clayton will be …