Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Kathleen Casey (AP Photo)
Kathleen Casey, a political appointee to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), spent portions of her time regulating Wall Street from overseas, according to agency records obtained by JunketSleuth.
The outgoing commissioner traveled to Israel, Japan, Switzerland and France in just one month during 2009. She made pricey phone calls ($213 total over two nights in Switzerland), stayed in rooms costing $308 a night, and charged $272 for meals and accumulated $36 in mini-bar charges in just one day in France.
During a one-night stay in New York, Casey charged $395 for a hotel room, $87.98 for a room service dinner and $12 for “private bar.” Once, in November 2009, she paid $491 a night at a New York hotel.
During a 40-month period, Casey made 14 trips abroad…more than the other four SEC commissioners combined. An SEC spokesperson told JunketSleuth that between 2008 and 2011 Casey was designated to represent the SEC internationally.
Before her appointment to the SEC in July 2006, Casey was considered a protégé of Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Alabama).
-David Wallechinsky, Noel Brinkerhoff
In June 2009, Securities and Exchange Commissioner Kathleen L. Casey Began a Whirlwind of Travel That Took Her to Israel, Japan, Switzerland and France in the Space of a Month (by Russell Carollo, JunketSleuth)
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