By Eleanor Laise, reporter for MarketWatch.
In March, Rohit Chopra was invited to give a virtual speech at the University of Pennsylvania, an Ivy League school known for churning out finance-minded graduates who fill the rosters of Wall Street firms. A graduate of Penn’s Wharton School, Chopra himself had been part of this club. But he quickly established that he was no longer necessarily a friend, laying out a plan for reining in Wall Street and corporate rule breakers.
“My classmates, students and other alumni are now financiers, convicted felons, and everything in between,” Chopra said in his mild tone, adding that when he was at Penn he “viewed financial regulators as clueless and even a little corrupt.”
