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U.S. Attorney Who Launched Novel Va. Financial and Securities Fraud Task Force to Step Down – Compliance Week

By Securities Docket on August 29, 2013, 11:22 am

Neil H. MacBride, the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, announced last week that he will be stepping down next month. In June 2010, MacBride made news when his district launched a novel financial fraud Task Force that asserted jurisdiction over most securities fraud because the SEC’s EDGAR database is physically housed in […]

Posted in Criminal, Top | Tagged EDGAR, Task Forces

The PCAOB’s “Game Change” Proposal on the Auditors’ Report is Small Change — Re:Balance

By Securities Docket on August 29, 2013, 9:21 am

With formal comments due to the PCAOB by December 11, and as the polite applause dies down, a cooler perspective should see this tinkering as no more a “game change” than raising the stakes from a penny to a nickel. That’s because the PCAOB is playing it small all the way. Board member Steven Harris […]

Posted in Industry | Tagged Auditors, PCAOB, Web Watch