- Chief Compliance Officer and VP of Legal Affairs, Arrow Electronics
By 
Tammy Whitehouse2019-08-05T19:12:00
The U.S. Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission are pursuing fraud charges over manipulation of a non-GAAP metric at a publicly traded real estate investment trust.
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