SEC charges chief compliance officer in stock fraud scheme
By 
Aaron Nicodemus2020-09-11T18:00:00
A New Jersey-based asset management firm and its president and chief compliance officer are facing SEC charges for “cherry-picking” profitable stocks for new and favored accounts that diminished returns for other clients.
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