Scott Pomfret is a securities lawyer and author based in Boston, Massachusetts. Pomfret is a branch chief in the Division of Enforcement of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Boston office. He has led investigations of market timing, stock options backdating, financial fraud, insider trading, and investment advisor and hedge fund fraud. His trials include a stint as a Special Assistant United States Attorney in the District of Massachusetts in a successful perjury trial against a former general counsel of a public company and a three-week market manipulation trial against three former brokers. In 2007, Pomfret won the Division Director’s Award. He was appointed the first co-chair of an affinity group for GLBT employees and helped inaugurate the SEC’s first gay pride celebration in 2008.

Pomfret is the author of Since My Last Confession: A Gay Catholic Memoir and a frequent commenter on issues involving gay Catholics and gay publishing. He also wrote the Q-Guide to Wine and Cocktails and is best-known for launching the first-ever line of Harlequin-style gay romance novels (“Romentics”), which in 2005 were featured in the New York Times Magazine, Boston Globe, and London Times. He is also author of numerous short stories and articles in legal journals.

Prior to SEC, Pomfret was a litigation associate at Ropes & Gray LLP in Boston, where he specialized in government enforcement work in securities and health care fraud. Among the notable matters on which Pomfret worked was a pro bono case challenging the constitutionality of Massachusetts sodomy statutes. Pomfret clerked on the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit for the Honorable Norman Stahl.

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