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Jay Clayton, President Donald Trump’s nominee to chair the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, plans to promise lawmakers at his confirmation hearing on Thursday not to shy away from going after fraudsters. “I am 100 percent committed to rooting out any fraud and shady practices in our financial system,” said Clayton, according to excerpts of […]
The former chairman of Dean Foods told jurors at a criminal trial Tuesday that he fed secrets about the company to a professional gambler for over seven years, sometimes speaking in coded language over a prepaid cellular phone called the “bat phone.” Thomas Davis, 68, was the prosecution’s star witness in the insider trading case […]
If confirmed, Clayton would lead the agency as it puts two major reputation-damaging events behind it: Its failure to act on several tips that Bernie Madoff was operating a Ponzi scheme, which blew up in 2006 and caused billions of dollars in investor losses; and its inability to regulate securities markets in a way that […]
Get caught up with the Securities Docket News Wire for March 22, 2017.