Ex-GPB Capital CCO avoids prison in SEC theft case
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Aaron Nicodemus2021-03-25T16:13:00
A former SEC examiner who used insider information about an ongoing fraud investigation to obtain the chief compliance officer job with private equity firm GPB Capital has been sentenced to nine months of home confinement.
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