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SEC faces lawsuit over ‘gag orders’ in enforcement settlements | Article | Compliance Week

By Securities Docket on May 6, 2019, 8:08 am

“The sole purpose of the gag regulation is to affect public perception of the SEC and the SEC’s enforcement activities,” the Cato lawsuit says. “It accomplishes its purpose by restricting constitutionally protected speech—specifically, speech critical of the SEC itself … The SEC demands blanket, perpetual gag orders of this sort in every case it settles […]

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SEC faces lawsuit over ‘gag orders’ in enforcement settlements | Compliance Week

By Securities Docket on January 17, 2019, 10:14 am

The Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank, is suing the Securities and Exchange Commission in federal court to challenge its decades-old policy of imposing “gag orders” on settling defendants in civil enforcement actions. *** “The sole purpose of the gag regulation is to affect public perception of the SEC and the SEC’s enforcement activities,” the Cato […]

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Admissions in SEC Enforcement Cases: The Revolution That Wasn’t

By Securities Docket on October 16, 2017, 9:21 am

…The SEC continues to report record enforcement numbers and has touted the admissions policy as a great success. However, this Article empirically demonstrates that the SEC has obtained admissions in a very small number of cases since adopting the new policy, and on only a few occasions in cases involving the most serious charges, namely […]

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Sand Hill Exchange Founder Accepts Responsibility, Has Feedback for SEC | Compliance Week

By Securities Docket on June 18, 2015, 10:43 am

In an unusual video “Response to SEC Enforcement Action,” the founder of the Sand Hill Exchange personally accepted responsibility for all wrongdoing by the exchange and offered some constructive criticism and feedback to the SEC. via Sand Hill Exchange Founder Accepts Responsibility, Has Feedback for SEC | Compliance Week

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Challenging Consequences: The Government’s Requirement for Wrongdoing Admissions in Civil Fraud Suits | The D&O Diary

By Securities Docket on April 13, 2015, 7:51 am

In one of the more troublesome recent developments for corporate officials who find themselves targeted by government investigations, both the U.S. Department of Justice and the Southern District of New York U.S. Attorney’s Office have made it clear that as part of the settlement of civil fraud actions, the governmental authorities intend to seek both […]

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Rengan Rajaratnam Settlement Exposes Slightly Weak Point in SEC’s Newish Admissions Policy | Cady Bar the Door

By Securities Docket on October 27, 2014, 7:31 am

Anyway, I thought that until I read this quote from Rajaratnam’s lawyer, Daniel Gitner: “The S.E.C. elected to offer, and Rengan elected to accept, a no admit/no deny settlement. Rengan is moving on to the next phase of his life. If the S.E.C. has further comment, so will we.”  Gitner was right to make this […]

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Second Circuit Vacates Judge Rakoff’s Rejection of SEC’s Citigroup Settlement | The D&O Diary

By Securities Docket on June 5, 2014, 8:50 am

On June 4, 2014, in a long-awaited but not unexpected opinion (here), the Second Circuit ruled that Southern District of New York Judge Jed Rakoff had improperly rejected the $285 million settlement of the SEC’s enforcement action against Citigroup. Because the case involved the question of whether or not parties may enter into “neither admit […]

Posted in SEC, Top | Tagged Admissions, Settlements

Financial regulators don’t agree on Wall Street mea culpas — Reuters

By Securities Docket on May 16, 2014, 11:35 am

Wall Street’s self-funded regulator has not been swayed by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s new policy that some industry wrongdoers should admit to their bad behavior. That may be good for brokers and firms who are targets of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority’s enforcement actions, but it does not please some investor advocates. via […]

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SEC targets Sam Wyly in pursuit of admissions of wrongdoing — Reuters

By Securities Docket on February 11, 2014, 7:32 am

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has demanded an admission of wrongdoing from Texas investor Samuel Wyly, as part of an ongoing policy shift from allowing defendants to settle lawsuits without acknowledging the charges against them. Details of the settlement talks with Wyly emerged at a federal court hearing in New York last week, when […]

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Kind Words for ‘No Admit’ Securities Settlements – The Blog of Legal Times

By Securities Docket on November 13, 2013, 4:36 pm

Robert Khuzami, who spent four years as enforcement director, defended the commission’s long-standing “no admit, no deny” practice. Any person reading a newspaper article about a big SEC settlement, he said, would not walk away with the notion the company making the deal did nothing wrong. Khuzami described what he called the “whole package” of […]

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