Gary Aguirre, the former SEC attorney who has testified before Congress about preferential treatment he believes the agency gave certain Wall Streeters, defended one business journalist, but not another, TheDeal.com executive editor Yvette Kantrow pointed out in her latest column.
Kantrow wrote that Aguirre wrote a letter to the Wall Street Journal last week where he criticized its coverage.
“Aguirre also notes that he has offered ‘ample evidence’ to support his claims against the SEC and takes the Journal to task for attacking ‘one of two Pulitzer-prize winning reporters who co-authored the first New York Times article about the SEC’s investigation of Pequot,’ referring, of course, to Gretchen Morgenson. It’s the third time in six weeks that Morgenson’s defenders have used her Pulitzer to deflect critics. That’s one potent prize.”
Later, Kantrow noted that Aguirre took exception to the reporting by San Diego Union-Tribune reporter Bruce Bigelow, who was part of a team that won a Pulitzer last year.
She wrote, “The story notes that Aguirre’s supervisors at the SEC testified before Congress that he treated colleagues who disagreed with his methods with ‘disrespect, bordering on contempt.’
“When the paper asked Aguirre to comment, the story said, he wrote a letter to the chief legal officer of The Copley Press, publisher of The San Diego Union-Tribune. ‘I suggest the U-T give careful thought before it launches an attack on my reputation by using the patently false testimony of senior SEC officials under investigation,’ the letter said.
“Really, now. Is that any way to treat a winner of the Pulitzer Prize?”
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