Part I. Criminal Proceedings
§ 6:1...... In General
§ 6:2...... SOA Enhanced Penalties for Securities Fraud and Related Crimes
§ 6:3...... SOA ― Instructing the Sentencing Commission on the Seriousness of Financial Fraud Introduction
Part II. Civil Proceedings
A. Injunctions
§ 6:4...... In General
§ 6:5...... Scienter and Probability of Further Violations
§ 6:6...... Aiding and Abetting
§ 6:7...... Statute of Limitations
B. Civil Penalties
§ 6:8...... Introduction
§ 6:9...... The Composite
§ 6:10.... The Penalty
§ 6:11.... Civil Penalties and Controlling Persons
C. Barring Securities Violators From Acting as an Officer or Director of a Public Company
§ 6:12.... Introduction
§ 6:13.... Sarbanes-Oxley Lowers Standard for Officer/Director Bar
§ 6:14.... Distinguishing between Unfitness and Substantial Unfitness
D. Disgorgement
§ 6:15.... Introduction
§ 6:16.... Disgorgement of Executive Equity Related Compensation
§ 6:17.... SAO Provision Requiring Reimbursement of Equity Related Compensation in the Event of Restatements
§ 6:18.... How Effective is the Disgorgement Remedy
§ 6:19.... Disgorgement Funds ― To Whom Do They Belong?
Part III. Administrative Adjudication and Sanctions
A. Administrative Enforcement Remedies
§ 6:20.... Introduction
§ 6:21.... Securities Professionals, Remedial Sanctions and Administrative Fines
§ 6:22.... —Determining the Amount of the Administrative Fine
§ 6:23.... —Administrative Fines ― Determining the Public Interest
§ 6:24.... —Determining Willfulness
§ 6:25.... Cease and Desist Orders
§ 6:26.... —Temporary Cease and Desist Order
§ 6:27.... —Enforcement of Cease and Desist Order
§ 6:28.... —Disgorgement and Accounting
§ 6:29.... —Officer and Director Bar
§ 6:30.... APSOP — Matching Wits With Recidivists
§ 6:31.... Administrative Sanctions and Aiders and Abettors
§ 6:32.... Suspension of Trading
B. SEC Enforcement Proceedings and the Statute of Limitations
§ 6:33.... Introduction
§ 6:34.... The Section 2642 Five-Year Statute of Limitations
§ 6:35.... Section 2462 Bar and the SEC Post-Johnson
§ 6:36.... Section 2462 and the Administrative Law Judges Post-Johnson
§ 6:37.... In the Matter of Warren G. Trepp — Some Other Issues
Part IV. Administrative Proceeding and SEC Rules of Practice
A. Introduction
§ 6:38.... Scope of the Rules of Practice
§ 6:39.... Background
§ 6:40.... Wells Statements
§ 6:41.... Initiating the Proceeding
§ 6:42.... Prehearing Conferences
B. Discovery
§ 6:43.... Introduction
§ 6:44.... Documents Division of Enforcement to Make Available on Request for Inspection and Copying
§ 6:45.... Documents Obtainable by Subpoena
§ 6:46.... Documents Obtainable on Motion
§ 6:47.... Documents Division of Enforcement May Withhold
§ 6:48.... Comparison to Federal Rules of Civil Procedure
C. Hearings and the Hearing Officer
§ 6:49.... Authority of the Hearing Officer
§ 6:50.... The Hearing
§ 6:51.... Proposed Findings and Conclusions
§ 6:52.... Motion for Summary Disposition
D. The Initial Decision and Commission Review
§ 6:53.... Petition for Review
§ 6:54.... Briefs and Briefing Schedule
§ 6:55.... Oral Argument
§ 6:56.... Commission’s Decision
§ 6:57.... Judicial Review and Stay Pending Review
E. Other Proceedings
§ 6:58.... Commission Review of Disciplinary and Certain Other Decisions of SROs
§ 6:59.... Temporary Cease and Desist Orders; Suspending Registration of Broker-Dealer
§ 6:60.... Proceedings to Approve Plan for Disgorgement
Part V. SEC as Enforcer
A. Pre-Enron
§ 6:61.... Prevalence of Blatant Securities Fraud and the Need for Priorities
§ 6:62.... Accounting Irregularities
§ 6:63.... Centennial Technologies
§ 6:64.... California Micro
§ 6:65.... Sensormatic Electronics
§ 6:66.... Media Vision Technologies, Inc.
§ 6:67.... Spectrum Information Technologies
§ 6:68.... Woolworth
§ 6:69.... Tardy Action and Deterrence
§ 6:70.... Change of Enforcement Priorities?
B. Post-Enron
§ 6:71.... Cooperation for Leniency
§ 6:72.... The Pitt/Bush Enforcement Record
§ 6:73.... —Enron Related Actions
§ 6:74.... —WorldCom Real-Time Enforcement
§ 6:75.... —Adelphia Communications’ “Elaborate and Extensive” Corporate Fraud
§ 6:76.... —Xerox ― Earnings Management
§ 6:77.... —The Case Against Rite Aid
§ 6:78.... —Waste Management/Arthur Andersen Case
§ 6:79.... —Homestore, Inc. and Round-Tripping
§ 6:80.... Asset Freeze Orders and SOA Temporary Freeze Provision