Here's a short story:

A recent Treasury Department report of misconduct by a banking regulator is giving watchdogs some ammunition to argue that financial regulators are too cozy with the banks they are tasked with overseeing. 

The report, part of a small batch just released by the department's inspector-general, says that a government employee in Florida who served as a bank examiner accepted "gratuities (golf fees and/or food) on at least four occasions" from a bank he was reviewing. The report, conducted in 2010, called the situation a "conflict of interest" for the employee, who worked at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. 

"You have a government employee, during a time when he has a special responsibility to oversee this bank, actually taking time from work and going to play golf with these folks," said Michael Smallberg, a researcher with the Project on Government Oversight. "It was a pretty striking example of a government employee actually cozying up to the folks he's supposed to be regulating." 

But Inspector-General Eric Thorson, who polices the Treasury Department and released the files, defended the agency. 

"These investigative reports are good examples of the fact that the department has been successful in demonstrating that there is little toleration for individual misconduct." 

"My opinion is that Treasury has an institutional highly ethical culture," he added. 

But Smallberg is still critical. "When folks wonder why regulators didn't do a better job of stopping the financial crisis, or they're wondering why OCC didn't spot the huge trading loss at JP Morgan earlier this year, I think part of the issue is just that the examiners were just too close to the folks they were supposed to be examining," he said.  (End of story)

Provide your best guess for the following question. Give ONLY the guess, no other words or explanation.

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Guess: <most likely guess, as short as possible; not a complete sentence, just the guess!>

Here are a few examples of questions and answers:

Question: What was the recent report about?
Guess: Misconduct by a banking regulator

Question: Was this a big batch?
Guess: No

Question: When was the report?
Guess: 2010

Question: What was it called?
Guess: A "conflict of interest" for the employee

Question: Who took up for the agency?
Guess: Eric Thorson

Now answer the following question in the same format.

Question: Who was he?

Inspector-General