All Regulatory Enforcement articles – Page 154
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‘Outsider Trading’ Crackdown Announced
The Justice Department and SEC both announced high-profile cases on Tuesday against a large group of hackers and traders. Over a five-year period, the group allegedly carried out a scheme that involved hacking more than 150,000 confidential press releases from the computer networks of Marketwired, PR Newswire Association, and Business ...
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On the Death of Cecil the Lion and the FCPA
By now most everyone knows that in July, U.S. citizen and big game hunter Walter Palmer traveled to Zimbabwe and then shot and killed Cecil the Lion, a protected animal. What does that have to do with the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act? Quite a lot, columnist Tom Fox notes. This ...
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Beware the 'SEC Impersonator' Scams Targeting Your Money
You might not think that fraudsters impersonating the SEC would be a significant or ongoing problem but the volume of the SEC's "Investor Alerts" on this topic would seem to suggest otherwise.
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SEC Alleges Accounting Fraud at Miller Energy Resources
The Securities and Exchange Commission is alleging that the former chief financial officer and current chief operating officer of Miller Energy Resources, an oil and natural gas production company, inflated values of oil and gas properties, resulting in fraudulent financial reports for the Tennessee-based company. The audit team leader ...
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The End: Prosecutors Wrap Up Case Against Final Madoff Defendant
Yesterday, over six years after the criminal case began in the Bernard Madoff Ponzi scheme case, the Madoff firm's long-time controller, Irwin Lipkin, was sentenced to six months in prison. Lipkin is the 15th -- and final -- defendant to be prosecuted in the Madoff case.
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Outgoing SEC Commissioner Gallagher Takes One Last Shot at Dodd-Frank
In what was likely his last formal speech as an SEC commissioner, Commissioner Dan Gallagher invoked into his inner Stuart Smalley to take aim one last time at his favorite target, the Dodd-Frank Act.
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Nordea Bank Tackles AML Compliance Amid Hefty Fine
Nordea Bank AB, a major financial institution for the Nordic region, is re-establishing its anti-money laundering program to correct flaws in its processes that resulted in the company paying up to $5.9 million in fines. This is not the first time Nordea has been put in the spotlight for poor ...
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Small-Company Rules Inch Forward
Congress (and SEC commissioners) routinely complains that the SEC is so focused on churning out overdue rules for compliance with the Dodd-Frank Act, it has neglected to churn out overdue rules on capital formation required under the JOBS Act. In truth, the SEC is likely to move forward with what ...
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NY Regulator Blocks Promontory from Bank Consulting
New York’s Department of Financial Services Department will deny Promontory Financial Group access to confidential supervisory bank information, a move that prevents it from engaging in regulatory work with financial institutions the state regulator oversees. The action follows a report critical of work the consultant did for British bank ...
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Former Law Firm I.T. Employee Sentenced to Two Years for Brazen Insider Scheme
Last week, a former I.T. professional at law firm Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, received a two-year sentence for a particularly brazen insider trading case scheme -- a scheme that foolishly ignored a huge “flashing stop sign,” according to the sentencing judge.
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OFAC Fines Boston Firm for Contracting Iranian Developers
The Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control has fined a Boston-area software company for violating Iranian sanctions by using Web developers from that country. The company was fined $205,650 despite protests that the amount was too high and “its lack of a compliance program and failure to implement one ...
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U.S. Asks Supreme Court to Review 'Erroneous' Newman Decision
Facing an August 3 deadline to appeal the Second Circuit's Newman decision, the United States today filed a petition for a writ of certiorari with the U.S Supreme Court. The U.S. argued that the Second Circuit's decision "erroneously departed" from the Supreme Court’s decision in Dirks v. SEC.
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SEC's Dan Hawke, Chief of Market Abuse Unit, Departing Agency
The SEC's Dan Hawke, Chief of the Division of Enforcement’s Market Abuse Unit, will be leaving the agency after 16 years of service.
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Podcast: Spain’s New Corporate Compliance Defense
Image: Spain has been receiving a lot of attention for its corporate compliance defense. Not only did the country adopt new requirements to help root out corruption; it goes further than other nations have gone by mandating specific features that compliance programs must contain to qualify. In this podcast, Aaron ...
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Podcast: Spain’s New Corporate Compliance Defense
Spain has been receiving a lot of attention recently for its corporate compliance defense. Not only did the country adopt new requirements to help root out corruption but it goes further than other countries have gone by mandating specific features that compliance programs must contain in order to qualify. In ...
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Mead Johnson Nutrition Pays $12M for FCPA Violations in China
Mead Johnson Nutrition will pay $12.03 million to settle civil charges that it violated books and records requirements of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act when a China-based unit made improper payments at state-owned hospitals. The settlement, the result of an administrative proceeding, was detailed in an Offer of Settlement the ...
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FINRA Fines Goldman Sachs $1.8M for Trade Reporting Failures
Goldman Sachs Group has agreed to pay $1.8 million to resolve allegations by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority that one of its units failed to accurately submit required trade reports, filed inaccurate trading data for more than eight years, and did not have adequate systems and controls in place ...
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Fiat Chrysler Will Pay $150M, Largest Ever NHTSA Penalty
Acknowledging violations of the Motor Vehicle Safety Act’s requirements to repair safety defects, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles has agreed to a $105 million civil penalty, the largest ever imposed by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. The automaker agreed to an independent monitor, approved by the NHTSA and in place for ...
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AP Offers Up New Treasure Trove of SEC-Related Videos
The Associated Press made hundreds of thousands of video stories dating from 1895 to the present available on its YouTube channels. The newly available videos include countless clips that may be of interest to compliance professionals. The channel features clips such as the “House committee hearing on Madoff scandal” and ...
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Fed to China Construction Bank: Fix AML Controls
The U.S. Federal Reserve and the New York Department of Financial Services in an enforcement action this week ordered China Construction Bank and its New York branch to significantly improve its compliance operations. The bank and the branch have 60 days to jointly submit a written enhanced compliance program in ...