New PCAOB Enforcement Chief Was Investigated for Campaign Finance Violations

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George Demos, who started this week as the PCAOB’s enforcement director, was investigated more than a decade ago on allegations that he accepted an illegal campaign contribution from his wife when he ran as a Republican candidate for Congress. The case was dropped in 2018 after the FEC’s four commissioners deadlocked on whether there was “probable cause…