Lobbyist, lawyer Thomas H. Boggs Jr. dead at 73

[Bryce Butler]

2. From the linked article:

Working for the American Bankers Association, Mr. Boggs helped argue for the repeal of Glass-Steagall Act, a Depression-era law that prohibited commercial banks from combining with brokerage houses. The repeal, part of a larger appetite for deregulation in the late 1990s, is often said to have played a significant role in worsening the financial collapse of the late 2000s.