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Securities

Sep. 22, 2009

The New SEC: Is It An Improvement?

Patrick Coughlin, co-founder of Coughlin Stoia Geller Rudman & Robbins LLP asks: Where is the SEC on current enforcement?

SECURITIES

Patrick Coughlin

President Barack Obama's win ushered in the era of the new Securities and Exchange Commission. The new label was meant to differentiate the current SEC from the SEC that had ultimately failed to protect investors, under Chris Cox and the Bush administration, from wild securitization of everything that touched the mortgage market, huge Ponzi schemes such as Madoff and Stanford and credit rating agencies run ...

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