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In a March 2, 1972 memo, Casey announced the creation of an Advisory Committee on Enforcement Policies and Practices. The Committee, which included John A. Wells and former SEC Chairmen Ralph H. Demmler and Manuel F. Cohen, was commissioned to work with the staff in examining the SEC's enforcement objectives, policies and practices.

While enforcement responsibilities had been handled for years as part of the Division of Trading and Exchanges, later known as the Division of Trading and Markets, Casey saw a need to create a separate division that could move rapidly and respond effectively to enforcement issues. The Committee delivered its report in June, and by August, Casey announced a major SEC reorganization, creating the Division of Enforcement with Irving M. Pollack as its head, and a new Division of Market Regulation, with General Counsel G. Bradford Cook as its director.

The duties of regulating mutual funds were split off from the old Division of Corporate Regulation and given to the newly created Division of Investment Companies, with Alan S. Mostoff as director.(25)

The Division of Enforcement would become a major force in insuring compliance with federal securities laws.

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Related Museum Resources

Papers

1972 to present

Division Directors, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Division of Enforcement

[document] (pdf) (Government Records.)

1972 to present

Division Directors, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Division of Investment Management

[document] (pdf) (Government Records.)

March 2, 1972

Request for Public Comment on SEC's Advisory Committee on Enforcement

[image] (pdf) (Government Records)

June 19-23, 1972

Manual for SEC Enforcement Training Program

(Courtesy of Gregory G. Faragasso)

• Pages 1 - 100 [image] (pdf)
• Pages 101 - 200 [image] (pdf)
• Pages 201 - 300 [image] (pdf)
• Pages 301 - 400 [image] (pdf)
• Pages 401 - 500 [image] (pdf)
• Pages 501 - 600 [image] (pdf)
• Pages 601 - 715 [image] (pdf)

Photos

1967

Irving M. Pollack and Manuel F. Cohen

Presentation of Distinguished Service Award

October 4, 1972

SEC Staff Meeting

(left to right) Alan Rosenblat, Chief Counsel, Division of Investment Management; Lew Mendelson, Assistant Director, Division of Investment Management; Sydney Mendelsohn, Assistant Director, Division of Investment Management; Allan Mostoff, Director, Division of Investment Management; Aaron Levy, Director, Division of Corporate Regulation; Karl Smeltzer, Chief Financial Assistant, Division of Investment Management; Phil Gross, Special Counsel, Division of Enforcement; Bernard Wexler, Director, Office of Policy Planning; and Sandra Monse, Staff Assistant, Division of Investment Management

(Photo and identification courtesy of Karl Smeltzer )

Oral Histories

30 October 2002

Allan Mostoff

With Richard Rowe

• audio (mp3)
• edited transcript (pdf)

16 January 2002

Irving Pollack

With David Silver

• audio - Part 1 (mp3)
• audio - Part 2 (mp3)
• audio - Part 3 (mp3)
• edited transcript (pdf)

23 September 2003

Stanley Sporkin

With Irving Pollack

• audio (mp3)
• edited transcript (pdf)

Programs

25 September 2002

Roundtable on Enforcement

Moderator: Irving Pollack, Stanley Sporkin

Presenter(s): Theodore Altman, David Doherty, Benjamin Greenspoon, Theodore Levine, Alan Rosenblat, Thomas Rae, Richard Rowe, David Silver, Theodore Sonde, Wallace Timmeny

• audio - Session I Only (mp3)
• video - Part 1
• video - Part 2
• edited transcript (pdf)