Ann Wagner walked into Congress with a few million dollars and today is worth an estimated $26 million, all while chairing the subcommittee that oversees the SEC, the agency that polices Wall Street. Her family trust poured cash into private equity funds like KKR just days before she held hearings on retail investing, and with private equity and Wall Street executives among her biggest donors, she introduced legislation to strip the SEC of its power to fine corporate lawbreakers. Working Americans pay the price.

Read the full story: Ann Wagner Is Worth an Estimated $26 Million. She Writes the Rules for the Industry Her Money Is In.