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SEC charges “Golden Goose” and six others in huge insider trading case. http://is.gd/co0b # Navigant: Subprime mortgage cases filed in fed. court during first 9 months of ’08 already 50% more than in all of ’07. http://is.gd/cnM4 # Credit Suisse To Pay Top Execs’ Bonuses With Illiquid Mortgage Securities. http://is.gd/cnil # Rockland County D.A. investigating […]
WSJ Video: The Fall of Marc Dreier
The WSJ’s Nathan Koppel discusses the surreal fall of Marc Dreier, a major litigator now in jail and accused of fraud, selling bogus paper,and impersonation to the tune of $380 million.
Reader Challenge
Here is a challenge for Securities Docket readers/sleuths: What is the R-rated piece of the SEC’s big insider trading case filed today against the “Golden Goose,” etc. (details of the case previously discussed here)? Please provide your answer in the comments below.
Reuters Video: Obama announces Mary Schapiro as next SEC chairwoman
Reuters reports in the video below on Pres.-elect Obama’s announcement this morning in which he named Mary Schapiro, current CEO of FINRA, as the next chairwoman of the Securities and Exchange Commission. As an aside, check out the more than three-year-old file footage of the SEC building in the video. It is of the old […]
SEC charges seven in huge “Golden Goose” insider trading case
The SEC today announced that it has charged seven individuals, including several Wall Street professionals, and two companies involved in an insider trading ring. The SEC alleges that Matthew Devlin, a former registered representative at Lehman Bros., traded on and tipped his clients and friends with confidential, nonpublic information about 13 impending corporate transactions. According […]
Mary Schapiro, the new SEC, um … what do we call her?
Now that Pres.-elect Obama has formally named Mary Schapiro to head up the SEC, can we just agree on what her title is going to be? With Christopher Cox, it was simple. He was SEC Chairman. But “Chairman” sounds a bit illogical and inaccurate when applied to a woman, so what is the right title […]
SEC Historical Society interviews and archives of Mary Schapiro
The Securities and Exchange Commission Historical Society has some interesting materials in its collection about incoming SEC Chair Mary Schapiro. Please see the links below: November 2, 2005: In-depth interview (audio and transcript available). October 20, 2005: Enforcement Remedies program, in which she was a panelist along with Ralph Ferrara, Theodore Levine, William McLucas, and […]
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By Securities Docket on December 18, 2008, 2:42 pm
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