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Archived Version and Materials Now Available For Today’s Subprime Litigation Webcast (Mar. 11). http://is.gd/mVLc # SEC Chairman Mary Schapiro testifying now before House subcommittee. Watch it live on C-Span. http://is.gd/30ic # Transcript: March 11, 2009 Prepared Testimony of SEC Chairman Mary Schapiro Before House Financial Services Subcommittee. http://is.gd/mSrj # Today’s Webcast, 2 pm Eastern — […]
Enforcement Action, Oncology Edition (cont.)
Back in September 2008, two cases in a span of two days prompted me to ask (in “Enforcement Action, Oncology Edition“) “which is worse — inducing shareholders to purchase $6.5 million of your company’s stock by falsely depicting the company as being on the verge of success curing cancer? Or defrauding a federal judge by […]
Fox Business Video: “Where the SEC Went Wrong”
Former SEC Chairman Harvey Pitt answers questions from Madoff victims and Fox Business on how Bernard Madoff avoided being caught by the SEC.
Archived Version and Materials Now Available For Today’s Webcast (Mar. 11)
The slides used in today’s webcast (“The Subprime Boomerang: After the Writedowns Comes the Litigation”) are now available and can be obtained here. In addition, the archived version of the webcast is now available here.
Materials for Today’s Webcast Available Here
The presentation materials for today’s webcast, “The Subprime Boomerang: After the Writedowns Comes the Litigation,” are now available.
Transcript: March 11, 2009 Prepared Testimony of SEC Chairman Mary Schapiro Before House Financial Services Subcommittee
Testimony Before the Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government Committee on Appropriations U.S House of Representatives March 11, 2009 Mary Schapiro Chairman U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Serrano, Ranking Member Emerson, Members of the Subcommittee: Thank you for the opportunity to testify today on behalf of the Securities and Exchange Commission. I am […]
Today’s Webcast — The Subprime Boomerang: After the Writedowns Comes the Litigation
Navigant Consulting is sponsoring a webcast today entitled “The Subprime Boomerang: After the Writedowns Comes the Litigation” that will examine the landslide of subprime litigation that is now upon us. It’s been two years since concerns over subprime mortgages threw off the early sparks that eventually grew into the current global credit crisis. The crisis […]
Closing the Congressional Insider Trading Loophole
It’s hard to come up with any compelling reason why trading based on Congressional knowledge should remain legal, and quite easy to build the case against it. Still, despite a situation that cries out for legislation to end this loophole, recent efforts to pass a bill that would do just that have gone nowhere. It is time to change that.
Madoff to Plead Guilty Tomorrow; Copy of Criminal Information Available Here
Bernard Madoff plans to plead guilty tomorrow to 11 criminal charges. His lawyer, Ira Sorkin, revealed this information at a hearing Tuesday before U.S. District Judge Denny Chin. He faces 150 years in prison on the charges. The charges against Madoff, filed in a criminal information yesterday (click here to read the document), include securities […]