SEC enforcement: What has gone wrong?

A disturbingly persistent pattern has emerged in U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission enforcement cases that involves three key elements: (1) The commission rarely sues individual defendants at large financial institutions, settling instead with the entity only; (2) when it does …

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Editor's Tweet: Professor John C. Coffee Jr. of Columbia Law School opines on the problem of SEC enforcement. Could the private bar be a solution?