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House Staffer Who Helped Write Bank Reform Rules Gets Job As Bank Lobbyist
When the House worked on financial regulatory reform legislation last year, 16 of the Financial Services Committee staffers -- 12 of them Democrats -- assisting in that effort had previously worked as federally-registered lobbyists.
One of them is now heading back to K Street.
Peter Roberson helped write legislation intended to regulate credit-default swaps and other over-the-counter financial products, reported Bloomberg's Matthew Leising in breaking the news of Roberson's turn through the revolving door. He is now going to work for Intercontinental Exchange Inc. as a lobbyist. The company owns the world's biggest CDS clearinghouse that will be regulated by the rules that Roberson had a major hand in writing.
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