Edith O'Brien, the Chicago-based treasurer of MF Global HoldingsLtd.'s broker-dealer, was pulled from back-office obscurity ontocenter stage last year in testimony to Congress by former chiefexecutive Jon S. Corzine.
Today, having become a key figure in the brokerage's messydenouement, she faces lawmakers directly for the first time.
O'Brien was identified by Corzine several times as an employeewith knowledge of transfers that may have included customer fundsin what he called the “chaotic'' days before the New York-basedfirm sought bankruptcy protection Oct. 31, becoming theeighth-largest bankruptcy in U.S. history. With $1.6 billion incustomer money still missing, lawmakers are looking to her toprovide details that have so far proven elusive.
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