CFTC’s Top Cop to Leave as Washington Prepares for Trump’s New Era

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The ranks of Wall Street’s regulators in Washington continue to turn over as another top enforcer announced plans to leave. The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) on Thursday announced that Enforcement Director Aitan Goelman will leave the agency on February 3, 2017.

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During Goelman’s tenure as head of the agency’s largest division, the CFTC filed hundreds of successful enforcement actions covering the full gamut of the its authority and obtained judgements and orders totaling more than $7 billion in monetary sanctions.

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