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Re:SEC halts Telegram's $1.7B token offering by gamblor956 on Friday October 11, 2019 @09:38PM (#21229968)
That explains how they won those cases against small fry like Madoff and Martha Stewart.
Re:SEC halts Telegram's $1.7B token offering by wahern on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @02:59PM (#21262326)
Those were exceptionally (almost laughably) easy cases and, IMO, make my point. The hard ones were the myriad cases of ratings and other deceitfulness that led up to the 2008 financial crisis. Only a single top banker was successfully criminally prosecuted, and the list of settlements was infamously underwhelming: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_major_SEC_enforcement_...

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