{"id":4366,"date":"2007-01-23T13:42:31","date_gmt":"2007-01-23T13:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stockbrokerfraudblog.com\/2007\/01\/american_association_for_justi"},"modified":"2021-09-20T15:41:23","modified_gmt":"2021-09-20T20:41:23","slug":"american-association-for-justi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/blog\/american-association-for-justi\/","title":{"rendered":"American Association for Justice Asks SEC To Publicly Disclose Relationship To Merrill Lynch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tThe AAJ (American Association for Justice) is asking Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Chris Cox and General Counsel Brian Cartwright to address media reports that the SEC thought about supporting Merrill Lynch &amp; Company during attempts by Enron shareholders to hold Enron banks accountable. The AAJ wants the SEC to publicly disclose the extent of its connections to Merrill Lynch.<\/p>\n<p>On January 12, 2007, the AAJ turned in to the SEC a Freedom of Information Act request. The AAJ wants the SEC to disclose if, how, and when they communicated with Merrill Lynch regarding Enron and whether Counsel Cartwright and Chairman Cox have recused themselves from the Enron case because they had both once worked for the law firm (Latham and Watkins) representing Merrill Lynch. Also, the Center for Responsive Politics is reporting that Latham &amp; Watkins was Chairman Cox&#8217;s largest contributor while he served in the U.S. Congress. The law firm reportedly contributed $124,594 on two separate occasions.<\/p>\n<p>At least 30 states are supporting the Enron shareholders who have filed lawsuits against investment banks that are accused of taking part in accounting fraud because of the Enron scandal. Merrill Lynch is one of these banks.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/blog\/american-association-for-justi\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading American Association for Justice Asks SEC To Publicly Disclose Relationship To Merrill Lynch\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The AAJ (American Association for Justice) is asking Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Chris Cox and General Counsel Brian Cartwright to address media reports that the SEC thought about supporting Merrill Lynch &amp; Company during attempts by Enron shareholders to hold Enron banks accountable. The AAJ wants the SEC to publicly disclose the extent of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3797,3800,3801,3802],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-j-p-morgan-chase","category-merrill-lynch","category-sec","category-smith-barney-citigroup"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>SEC Asked To Publicly Disclose Relationship To Merrill Lynch | Securities Fraud Attorney<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The American Association for Justice (AAJ) has asked the SEC to publicly disclose the extent of its connections to Merrill Lynch including media reports.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/blog\/american-association-for-justi\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"SEC Asked To Publicly Disclose Relationship To Merrill Lynch | Securities Fraud Attorney\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"The American Association for Justice (AAJ) has asked the SEC to publicly disclose the extent of its connections to Merrill Lynch including media reports.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Shepherd Smith Edwards &amp; Kantas, LLP\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"SEC Asked To Publicly Disclose Relationship To Merrill Lynch | Securities Fraud Attorney","description":"The American Association for Justice (AAJ) has asked the SEC to publicly disclose the extent of its connections to Merrill Lynch including media reports.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/blog\/american-association-for-justi\/","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_title":"SEC Asked To Publicly Disclose Relationship To Merrill Lynch | Securities Fraud Attorney","twitter_description":"The American Association for Justice (AAJ) has asked the SEC to publicly disclose the extent of its connections to Merrill Lynch including media reports.","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Shepherd Smith Edwards &amp; Kantas, LLP","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/blog\/american-association-for-justi\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/blog\/american-association-for-justi\/"},"author":{"name":"Shepherd Smith Edwards &amp; Kantas, LLP","@id":"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/e0240e0754684b69f7d6a7de1b9f1431"},"headline":"American Association for Justice Asks SEC To Publicly Disclose Relationship To Merrill Lynch","datePublished":"2007-01-23T13:42:31+00:00","dateModified":"2021-09-20T20:41:23+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/blog\/american-association-for-justi\/"},"wordCount":402,"articleSection":["J P Morgan - Chase","Merrill Lynch","SEC","Smith Barney - Citigroup"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/blog\/american-association-for-justi\/","url":"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/blog\/american-association-for-justi\/","name":"SEC Asked To Publicly Disclose Relationship To Merrill Lynch | Securities Fraud Attorney","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/blog\/#website"},"datePublished":"2007-01-23T13:42:31+00:00","dateModified":"2021-09-20T20:41:23+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/e0240e0754684b69f7d6a7de1b9f1431"},"description":"The American Association for Justice (AAJ) has asked the SEC to publicly disclose the extent of its connections to Merrill Lynch including media reports.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/blog\/american-association-for-justi\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/blog\/american-association-for-justi\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/blog\/american-association-for-justi\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/blog\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"American Association for Justice Asks SEC To Publicly Disclose Relationship To Merrill Lynch"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/blog\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/blog\/","name":"Investor Lawyers Blog","description":"Published By Investment Fraud Attorneys \u2014 Shepherd Smith Edwards &amp; Kantas, LLP","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/e0240e0754684b69f7d6a7de1b9f1431","name":"Shepherd Smith Edwards &amp; Kantas, LLP","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/c7f8f04990816cd4044977eb59908da8c8d1ae487cc919cebd7027b74a0740a3?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/c7f8f04990816cd4044977eb59908da8c8d1ae487cc919cebd7027b74a0740a3?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/c7f8f04990816cd4044977eb59908da8c8d1ae487cc919cebd7027b74a0740a3?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Shepherd Smith Edwards &amp; Kantas, LLP"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/"]}]}},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pedX9K-18q","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4366"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20171,"href":"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4366\/revisions\/20171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}