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We’ve already seen SEC insider trading cases alleging husband betraying wife, wife betraying husband, boyfriend betraying girlfriend, brother-in-law betraying brother-in-law, and even divorcee betraying divorcee, but here’s a new one: brother betraying sister. Yesterday, the SEC filed a settled insider trading action against Sarath B. Gangavarapu alleging that he misappropriated inside information from his sister, […]

//–> //–> //–> Get the Countdown Creator Pro widget and many other great free widgets at Widgetbox!The Madoff Report Countdown Clock has winded down to zero, and the day is here. But as noted by a reader in this comment days ago, we may not learn the contents of the report immediately. FOX Business confirms […]

The New Zealand stock exchange (NZX) has a quick question it would like NZ Farming Systems Uruguay, which is publicly traded on the NZX, to answer: Why, exactly, do the words “fudge this” appear in the company’s annual financial statement sent to the stock exchange yesterday? The New Zealand Herald reports that the NZX was […]

Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela, Muhammad Ali, Albert Einstein, Mother Teresa, Bill Gates… sending a man to the moon, standing in front of tanks in Tienanmen Square, the miracle of creating human life, curing disease, tearing down the Berlin Wall, climbing Mount Everest… What is the next logical item in the sequence above? Find out […]

Yesterday, the SEC began announcing its enforcement actions through an additional medium: its new @SEC_Actions feed on Twitter. The SEC had been somewhat half-heartedly and sporadically announcing enforcement actions through its @SEC_News Twitter feed prior to yesterday, but the @SEC_News feed now seems to be reserved for pushing out links to its daily News Digest […]

It’s late August. Everyone you know is out of the office on vacation. Nothing big (or even medium-sized) is going on, anywhere, especially in the Enforcement Action world. But sit tight… because we are less than a week a way from a blockbuster. //–> //–> Get the Countdown Creator Pro widget and many other great […]

The trailer for Michael Moore upcoming new documentary, “Capitalism: A Love Story,” is now out and can be viewed below. The movie looks at the causes of the global economic meltdown and, in Moore’s words, focuses on “the disastrous impact that corporate dominance and out-of-control profit motives have on the lives of Americans and citizens […]

It remains unclear what the SEC and CFTC will end up doing to coordinate their regulatory efforts now that both appear safe from being abolished, but know this: whatever they do will be “harmonious.” In response to a June 17, 2009, White Paper from the White House that called on the SEC and CFTC to […]

I recently discovered a new website called “myCorporateResource.com.” MCR combs the websites of the top 100 American law firms to find new Client Alerts, which it estimates number approximately 10,000 per year. MCR says that it then “aggregates, reviews, sorts and summarizes this content -for free- to give you a really useful corporate resource.” Predictably, […]