H. David Kotz, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Member of the US Securities and Exchange Commission
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Place of Birth: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
About H. David Kotz
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- David Kotz, also known as Harold David Kotz (born June 24, 1966), is a managing director at Berkeley Research Group.Kotz was a litigation associate at three law firms from 1990–99, and then a labor attorney at the U.S.
- Agency for International Development from 1999–2002.
- He worked at the Peace Corps as a lawyer handling labor and violent crime matters, as well as Inspector General, from 2002–07. He then was Inspector General at the U.S.
- Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) from December 2007 until his resignation in January 2012.
- At the SEC, his department conducted investigations about improprieties, conflicts of interest, and the SEC's failure to uncover Ponzi schemes.
- He referred 30 cases to the Justice Department; 2 were prosecuted, leading to 1 conviction.
- In 2012, an independent review of his conduct by the Inspector General of the U.S.
- Postal Service concluded that Kotz violated conflict of interest rules by conducting investigations on persons with whom he had a personal relationship.One conflict involved Kotz accepting three tickets to a football game at a subsidized cost from a financial adviser.
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