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Securities

Nov. 11, 2009

SEC Cracks Down on Lax Oversight

Federal regulators took the rare step Tuesday of charging a San Francisco brokerage firm with "failing to reasonably supervise a broker."

By Gabe Friedman

Daily Journal Staff Writer

The Securities and Exchange Commission took the rare step Tuesday of charging a San Francisco brokerage firm, its founder and former general counsel with "failing to reasonably supervise a broker."

The firm, Merriman Curhan Ford & Co., previously employed the broker that helped William "Boots" Del Biaggio III forge documents used to purchase the Nashville Preda...

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