Street clients, unable to build consensus, and arrogant to boot, he finally succumbed to criticism over his selection of William Webster to head the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board.""Hello, I Must Be Going," CFO. Pitt was just the second SEC Chairman to resign abruptly as a result of political turmoil. Slate magazine wrote: "Of all Pitt’s transgressions, none has been more pathetic than his self-pitying denunciations of 'guilt by occupation.' ... He accepted seedy clients not out of principle, but because he wanted to be a player, and because he wanted the money and publicity such assignments generated." In November 2002 journalist Calvin Trillin wrote a ballad about him, based on Sondheim's "Demon Barber," that began "Attend the tale of Harvey Pitt, Who many thought was quite unfit". When Pitt was asked in 2005 if he believed he could have left the SEC on a better note if he had stayed longer, he replied: "I feel I left on a very high note." Other Pitt received an honorary LL.D. degree from St. John's University School of Law in 2002, and received the President's Medal of Distinction from the President of Brooklyn College in 2003. He is a columnist with Compliance Week. He is now the chief executive officer of the strategic consulting firm, Kalorama Partners, LLC. References External links Kalorama Partners website Harvey Pitt's Compliance Week column PBS Frontline: Bigger Than Enron PBS Frontline: A Tale of Two Chairmen 1940s births American lawyers Living people Members of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Stuyvesant High School alumni Brooklyn College alumni St. John's University School of Law alumni George W. Bush administration personnel Lawyers from Brooklyn