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CFTC’s High-Profile Crypto Cases Lead to Massive Recoveries but Far Fewer Enforcement Actions

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The CFTC Division of Enforcement recently released its 2024 results, trumpeting its focus on large crypto matters that generated big headlines and even bigger recoveries, but resulted in a significant decline in total...more

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SEC Cannabis Enforcement Continuing to Grow this Past Spring

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During the past few months, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) Division of Enforcement has continued to police the areas of the cannabis industry that roll over into the SEC’s jurisdiction. In March, the...more

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SEC Awards $400,000 to Whistleblower Culpable In Fraudulent Scheme

On November 23, 2021, the SEC issued an award of $400,000 to a whistleblower who voluntarily provided the SEC with original information that assisted the agency in bringing a successful enforcement action that resulted in the...more

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Ninth Circuit Holds Loss Causation May Be Predicated on Information Potentially Available Under Freedom of Information Act

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Ninth Circuit Holds Loss Causation May Be Predicated on Information Potentially Available Under Freedom of Information Act; D.C. Circuit Upholds FINRA’s Permanent Ban of Broker Accused of Misconduct After Finding SCOTUS...more

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Three weeks after his initial arrest, Japanese prosecutors have officially indicted former Nissan Chair Carlos Ghosn for understating his income by $43 million....more

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2014 SEC and FINRA Enforcement Actions Against Broker-Dealers and Investment Advisers

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The sheer number of enforcement actions brought against broker-dealers and investment advisers makes it challenging to keep up. In this alert, we divide this year’s most important cases against broker-dealers and investment...more

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“The World’s Largest Ponzi Scheme”

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Regarding my last post on whistleblowers and tipsters at the SEC, I wanted to make one more related point. Many people like to yell at the SEC for not grasping the gravity of Harry Markopolos’s complaints about Bernie...more

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