CFTC enforcement head Mocek to leave commission for private sector position

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Ten-year Commodity Futures Trading Commission veteran Gregory Mocek - who oversaw numerous high-profile cases of illegal market activity from Enron to Amaranth Advisors -rnplans to leave the agency within the next two months to return to the private sector, the CFTC said Wednesday.rnMocek, director of CFTC's Division of Enforcement since 2002, will become a partner with McDermott Will & Emery's Energy and Derivatives Markets Practice Group.rnIn the interim, CFTC has appointed Stephen Obie Stephen Obie to serve as acting director of the enforcement division, effective immediately. Obie was counsel/associate director and regional administrator for the agency's New York office.