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Pujo Committee, 1912. [American lawyer Samuel J. Untermyer, counsel-investigator to the Committee, famously cross-examined J. P. Morgan and other New York bankers. The Pujo Committee was a congressional subcommittee formed to investigate the so-called "money trust", a community of Wall Street bankers and financiers that exerted powerful control over the nation's finances].