A former securities examiner was charged with accessing information about an investigation into a New York-based private-equity firm at which he was hired to serve as chief compliance officer. Attorneys Office for the Eastern District of New York, in a court appearance on Wednesday, his lawyer said. “He plans to defend himself vigorously and looks forward to vindicating himself at trial,” the lawyer, Scott Resnik of Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP, said. Mr. Cohn left the SEC to join GPB in October 2018. While in talks about a potential job at the private-equity firm, Mr. Cohn told GPB that he had inside information about the SEC’s investigation into the firm, according to an indictment filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York.

Source: Wall Street Journal October 23, 2019 21:40 UTC