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The Justice Department arrested UK trader Navinder Singh Sarao on Tuesday for manipulating markets leading to the 2010 “Flash Crash”, where the Dow Jones industrial average fell 1,000 points in about five minutes before gaining most of it back. via Justice charges UK trader with role in sparking 2010 ‘flash crash’ | New York Post
David Makol, one of the FBI’s top agents for “flipping” suspects in insider trading investigations, has rejoined the SEC as a forensic accountant in the Enforcement Division’s market abuse unit. via FBI Agent David Makol Rejoins SEC as Forensic Accountant | Compliance Week
Get caught up with the Securities Docket News Wire for April 20, 2015.
It strikes me that two civil regulators are facing dire attacks on aspects of their enforcement programs – both in different U.S. Courts of Appeals – at the same time. Both of these attacks arise out of generalized statutes that only sort of address the problems the regulators seek to remedy. To some degree, how […]
Days after calling for Congress to define insider trading, U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff has expanded on his views, saying two different laws are needed to separately cover criminal and civil wrongdoing. via Rakoff: Separate insider trading laws needed for criminal, civil cases | Reuters