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Amelia Cottrell, a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission investigator who helped build an insider-trading case against a unit of billionaire Steven A. Cohen’s SAC Capital Advisors LP, was promoted to a top enforcement position in the agency’s New York office.
Cottrell, 39, will help supervise a staff of about 180 attorneys, investigators, accountants and paralegals as associate director of the office, the SEC said in a statement June 14. She has been part of an enforcement unit specializing in unearthing market abuse that was formed in 2010.