Neal Wolin's Erased Bio

Thanks to No Axe, who went to the Wayback Machine to locate the erased Bio of newly appointed Deputy Secretary of the Treasury. The bio was erased from the his previous employer, The Hartford, and also the Google cache.

Here it is:

Management Team : Neal S. Wolin

Neal S. Wolin
President and Chief Operating Officer, Property and Casualty Operations

Neal S. Wolin is President and Chief Operating Officer for Property and Casualty operations of The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc. He is also a member of the company's Office of the Chairman.

Previously, he served as executive vice president and general counsel at The Hartford where he oversaw the company's legal, government affairs, corporate relations, communications and marketing functions, as well as the property and casualty's insurance runoff operations. He joined the company in March 2001.

Until January 2001, Wolin served as the general counsel of the U.S. Department of the Treasury, a position for which he was confirmed by the U.S. Senate and appointed by President Clinton in November, 1999. As general counsel, he was the chief legal officer of the Department and provided legal and policy advice to Treasury Secretaries Rubin and Summers and senior Department officials on the full range of issues under Treasury's jurisdiction. In January 2001, Secretary Summers awarded Wolin the Alexander Hamilton Award, the highest honor given by the Secretary of the Treasury. From 1995 to 1999, Wolin served as the deputy general counsel of the Treasury Department.

Prior to joining the Treasury Department, Wolin served in the White House as the executive assistant to National Security Advisor Anthony Lake and then Deputy National Secretary Advisor Samuel R. Berger. Prior to that, Wolin was the deputy legal adviser of the National Security Council, providing foreign affairs and national security legal advice to the National Security Advisor and the Counsel to the President. Wolin has also served as special assistant to three directors of Central Intelligence: William H. Webster, Robert M. Gates, and R. James Woolsey.

Before joining the federal government, Wolin practiced law in Washington D.C. with the law firm of Wilmer, Cutler, and Pickering, and as law clerk for United States District Judge Eugene H. Nickerson in the Eastern District of New York.

He has been an adjunct lecturer in Public Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, an adjunct assistant professor of law at Brooklyn Law School, and a Visiting Fellow in Economic Studies at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C.

Wolin received a B.A. degree in history summa cum laude from Yale College. After college, he studied at Balliol College at the University of Oxford as a Charles and Julia Henry Fellow, earning a Master of Science degree in Development Economics. He received a J.D. degree from Yale Law School, where he was a Coker Teaching Fellow in Constitutional Law.

Wolin is a member of the bars of Connecticut, Illinois, the District of Columbia and the U.S. Supreme Court. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Board of Overseers of the RAND Corporation's Institute for Civil Justice, the Board of Regents of the University of Hartford, the Board of Governors of the Partnership for Public Service and the Board of Directors of the Appleseed Foundation. He is also a James W. Cooper Fellow of the Connecticut Bar Foundation. Mr. Wolin was appointed by President Clinton to be a member of the President's Advisory Commission on Holocaust Assets in the United States, on which he served 1999-2000.

In contrast, here is the Treasury's release on Wolin:


Neal S. Wolin Confirmed as Deputy Secretary of the Treasury

WASHINGTON– Neal S. Wolin was confirmed by the United States Senate late Monday to serve as the Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Department of the Treasury.

"I am thrilled to have Neal return to the department. Neal brings a deep knowledge of the Treasury Department and strong managerial experience in both the private and public sectors, and I look forward to working closely with Neal at this critical moment in our nation's history." said Secretary Tim Geithner.

In February, Wolin was named Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy Counsel to the President for Economic Policy. Wolin served as General Counsel of the Department of the Treasury from 1999- 2001 and as Deputy General Counsel from 1995-1999. He previously served as Executive Assistant to the National Security Advisor, Deputy National Security Advisor and Deputy Legal Advisor to the National Security Council.

From 2001 to 2008, Wolin served at The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc., most recently as President and Chief Operating Officer for Property and Casualty Operations and previously as General Counsel. Earlier in his career, he also worked in private law practice at Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering in Washington, DC.

Wolin is a graduate of Yale College, the University of Oxford, and Yale Law School.