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DC Judge Royce Lamberth on April 26 set in motion a sanctions probe affecting Alex Oh, who'd joined the SEC as enforcement chief from the law firm Paul Weiss. Lambeth's order: https://courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.14559/gov.u... Oh today announced her resignation

https://twitter.com/MikeScarcella/status/1387524397993545728

edit: I dont understand it either, heres a longer article about it

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/28/business/sec-enforcement-...

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https://finance.yahoo.com/news/sec-enforcement-chief-alex-oh...

"Before joining the SEC, Oh was a partner at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, where her corporate clients included Exxon Mobil Corp. In that role she was defending the oil company against two-decade-old allegations that it supported killings and tortures in Indonesia, court documents show."

The case in question is an important one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doe_v._Exxon_Mobil_Corp.

Edit - link that works: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doe_v._Exxon_Mobil_Corp%2E (thanks layer8)

For some reason your Wikipedia link doesn't include the period at the end.

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doe_v._Exxon_Mobil_Corp.

edit: maybe a bug with the way HN handles the text to HTML.

i think microsoft started the trend of link-ifying URLs in outlook text emails reader and excluding .,)]

after that started, every PM/exec just want it to work like it works everywhere-else. Everywhere-else being their corporate email client, and then it comes full circle and indeed does work like that everywhere.

Let’s see if this works: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doe_v._Exxon_Mobil_Corp%2E

Yes! You can work around the issue by encoding the trailing dot as %2E.

And in Outlook you can enclose URLs in <…> delimiters.

HN's primitive URL parsing definitely doesn't derive from Microsoft :)

I did some work on it last year to take care of the worst omissions, and angle brackets should also now work to demark tricky URLs but there are still some edge cases. For example, <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doe_v._Exxon_Mobil_Corp.> should work, but doesn't (yet!)

Edit: now it does. So should these:

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagittarius_A*>

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Weinberg#"Don't_trust_any...>

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Northern_Railway_(U.S.)>

<https://developer.android.com/reference/android/location/Loc...>

They are all cases of URLs that don't get picked up correctly by HN's current parser. At least now they work with angle brackets.

It seems very unlikely that Exxon can be sued by folks living overseas in US courts for things govt members (members of their military) were involved in to benefit exxon, or am I not following this?

China clears and relocates folks all the time, I've never heard of those folks being able to sue in the US even if the removals benefit a US company.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_Tort_Statute (it's a complicated issue, and people are still arguing over the circumstances when this can apply). (It was narrowed quite a lot in 2013: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiobel_v._Royal_Dutch_Petroleu...)

I need a decoder ring for this. This is a court order in some case v Exxon. Whats it got to do with FISA or Clinton?

Nothing?

Alex Oh worked for a law firm which represents Exxon. That law firm was accused of obstructing a deposition to avoid providing answers to the other side. [1]

>ORDERS defense counsel to show cause by May 14, 2021 why sanctions should not be imposed under Rule 11 (b)(3) for alleging that plaintiffs' counsel was agitated, disrespectful, and unhinged during the deposition despite a lack of record evidence supporting those allegations. See Mem. Op. 29-31. >ORDERS defendants to serve a copy of this order on Ms. Oh.

Was Alex Oh specifically responsible for this conduct? The order doesn't say.

What does this have to do with Clinton? Nothing, except in a six-degrees-of-kevin-bacon sense.

[1]: https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.14559/g...

He was senior enough to share the blame because was more likely aware if not involved.

Melissa Hodgman is Peter Strozk's wife. Peter was (is??) the FBI-counter-intel agent notorious for his work on "Crossfire Hurricane," the Hillary Clinton email server, the "lying to the FBI" charges against Michael Flynn, and the questionable representations made repeatedly by the FBI to the FISA court.

by "notorious" you mean in the far right muck making mschine

sounds like a purely left-wing characterization of the facts

No, the far-left actually distrusts the FBI and intelligence agencies (it always has since at least Vietnam) and called out Russiagate as a mostly fabricated distraction from the evils of neoliberalism and globalization. It's the centrists who promote hate against Russia and China.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WRoTGlQ4JMA

jeez.. apparently this is all true:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Strzok

I am surprised that someone married to this person is acting as a high-ranking official in the executive branch of government controlled by the Democratic party

The surprises never end.

Hodgman has been at the SEC for years, that's not a partisan position. And she held the same office under Trump.

What does any of this have to do with the SEC? You're also passing credence that Peter Strozk is somehow notorious but I don't think that is by any means a universal truth. In my (mostly) independent circles he's just an agent who put some idiotic personal opinions on a government cellphone. His work has seemed to bear truth, and if anything things that couldn't be directly proven were withheld, which would be the mark of a good investigator.

The scare quote are flying pretty fast there. It's worth pointing out that Strzok's crime consists of personally being a democrat (probably) and thinking that the target of his investigation (Trump) was guilty. In the world of partisan media, of course, that's essentially capital treason. But to the rest of us? Meh.

Let's be honest: There are probably republicans in the government right now texting each other about how they hate Biden. And no one does, or should, care.

What?!????

The judge wrote an explanation but hasn't released it yet, because it's under seal.

>ORDERS the parties to meet and confer and to file a joint report by May 6, 2021, informing the Court whether they object to any portion of the Memorandum Opinion being unsealed. ...

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