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The SEC is trying to push through budgetary challenges arising from the recently-passed spending bill for FY 2014, but it can still feel good that it does not face the types of constraints facing the UK’s Serious Fraud Office. The SFO had to apply to the Treasury this week for £19m “to meet an urgent […]
Bernard Madoff’s former computer programmers created a web of simple equations to make thousands of fake transaction numbers, dates and time stamps appear realistic on documents used to trick auditors, a jury was told in the trial of five of the con man’s former top aides. via Madoff IT Guys Wrote Code to Trick Auditors, […]
Get caught up with the Securities Docket News Wire for January 29, 2014.
The two former J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. traders charged in the “London Whale” losses remain in Europe, frustrating the U.S. government. The Justice Department says that Javier Martin-Artajo is in Spain, “resisting extradition” to the U.S. Extradition from Spain can take months or years if contested in court. Julien Grout, a French citizen, is […]
Before David Meister was butting heads with Wall Street’s top defense lawyers, he was one of them. And now, after spending nearly three years as a federal regulator, Mr. Meister is returning to his defense lawyer past. Mr. Meister, who left Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom to run the enforcement unit of the Commodity Futures […]