He was general counsel of the Treasury and White House counsel in the Reagan administration and a member of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission.

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Meade, of New York, to be General Counsel for the Department of the Treasury, vice George Wheeler Madison, resigned.

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Much progress has been made in the past year, said David Aufhauser, general counsel to the American Treasury and head of a joint agency task-force on terrorist finance.

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Previously, she was Senior Deputy General Counsel at the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) from 2004 to 2009 and Of Counsel at the law firm of Bernabei and Katz from 2003 to 2004.

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