Morningstar to pay $1.15M in SEC internal control failure case
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Kyle Brasseur2022-06-08T13:57:00
Morningstar Credit Ratings agreed to pay a civil penalty of $1.15 million to resolve charges of disclosure violations and internal control failures levied by the Securities and Exchange Commission last year.
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