Ferdinand Pecora, Thomas Corcoran

Ferdinand Pecora (left), investigator for the senate before going on the securities and exchange commission and later on the bench in New York, pictured with Thomas Corcoran, RFC Attorney, just before the house rules committee opened its investigation of lobbying for and against the utilities bill in Washington on July 9, 1935. Pecora, who attended the hearing as a spectator, heard Corcoran assert that the Brewster threat statements âäœwere baseless.âä (AP Photo/GRS)