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Stanley Sporkin, crusading SEC enforcer and tough-minded U.S. judge, dies at 88 – The Washington Post

By Securities Docket on March 24, 2020, 11:44 am

Stanley Sporkin, who was the scourge of industry in the 1970s as the crusading chief enforcement officer of the Securities and Exchange Commission and who later had a colorful and controversial tenure as a federal judge in Washington with strongly worded rulings on high-profile cases, died March 23 at a hospice center in Rockville, Md. […]

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Statement on Passing of Enforcement Division Associate Director Scott W. Friestad — SEC Press Release

By Securities Docket on April 5, 2018, 12:21 pm

Enforcement Division Associate Director Scott W. Friestad passed away Wednesday, April 4, 2018. He served as an Associate Director in the Division of Enforcement beginning in March 2005, having left private practice to join the SEC in 1995. via Statement on Passing of Enforcement Division Associate Director Scott W. Friestad — SEC Press Release

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Melvyn Weiss, Lawyer Who Fought Corporate Fraud, Dies at 82 – The New York Times

By Securities Docket on February 6, 2018, 9:52 am

Melvyn I. Weiss, whose avalanche of class-action lawsuits made him a pariah to corporate America, a hero to plaintiffs, a catalyst for legal protections of investors and consumers, and finally a felon, died on Friday at his home in Boca Raton, Fla. He was 82. via Melvyn Weiss, Lawyer Who Fought Corporate Fraud, Dies at […]

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