Here’s another story you should put in that chapter on career choices. Young guy, promising attorney at the SEC—he is still in his probationary period but his work has earned him a few pay raises and he thinks he is on to a hot insider trading case.

And he wants to interview John Mack from Morgan Stanley because a) he thinks John has some info on it and b) that he might actually give it to him.

John has much better things to do with his time than to deal with some junior g man who has lost his way.

Nonetheless the kid goes to his bosses at the SEC to tell them that he plans to interview John Mack and they, in no uncertain terms let him know John was a ranger for Dubya and a top fundraiser for Hillary. Hello!

But that didn’t stop this kid and he still insists on an interview…and John’s attorney, the former chief of SEC enforcement, tells him flat out—no and goodbye….and then the kid was summarily fired without notice. And they dropped everything to do with John. This kid had it backwards from the start—actually going after us?

That’s not why anyone joins the SEC!