lawyer and former agency chief counsel, he would not have an easy ride at the SEC helm. Only a few weeks later, the Enron Corp. and other accounting scandals would break, dragging him and the agency into a controversy that would ultimately lead to his resignation. The accounting scandals would lead to legislation creating the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board to supervise corporate auditing practices. Despite his later travails, Pitt's efforts to bring New York's financial ...