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The S.E.C.’s authority extends to civil actions, which require a lower burden of proof than the higher criminal standard of proof beyond a reasonable doubt. Nevertheless, it appears that in some recent actions – including the closely watched Mark Cuban case and ones involving accounting fraud — the S.E.C. may have pushed too far in […]
Get caught up with the Securities Docket News Wire for February 9, 2014.
Sometimes you see something in an Foreign Corrupt Practices Act case that’s so inexplicable you wish someone would throw the red challenge flag and have the play reviewed under the hood or up in the booth. Unfortunately, in the largely-overlooked wind-down phase of the SEC’s FCPA case against several former Siemens executives, the last of the defendants […]