NBC Video: Scenes from this Weekend’s Madoff Auction
securitiesdocket.com 20 days ago — NBC News’ Jeff Rossen reports on this weekend’s “high-end garage sale” at which hundreds of items previously belonging to Bernard Madoff and his wife were auctioned off. Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News , World News , and News about the Economy

Fiscal Year 2009: The SEC’s Year from Hell
securitiesdocket.com 10/14/2009 — For the Securities and Exchange Commission, which operates on a fiscal year that ends every September, Oct. 1, 2009, could not come soon enough. It seems almost beyond dispute that the agency’s fiscal 2009 was the most dismal in its history, and perhaps the most transformational. Now it ...

SEC Charges Two Madoff Computer Programmers
securitiesdocket.com 23 days ago — In addition to their arrests today, two computer programmers who worked for Bernard Madoff were also sued by the SEC for their role in helping Madoff cover up his fraud for more than 15 years. The SEC’s complaint alleges that Jerome O’Hara and George Perez provided the technical ...

SEC Self-Funding: The Time Has Come
feedproxy.google.com 9/9/2009 — B. Carton As I argued in this column last month, the Securities and Exchange Commission budget has been well below where it should be for several years. This shortfall has caused the SEC to suffer a 10 percent reduction in staff and a cut of more than 50 percent in its new technology ...

Chais Argues SEC “Provided Credibility to Madoff”
securitiesdocket.com 10/22/2009 — First, Madoff victims seized on the SEC’s admitted failures in the Madoff case, which were further documented by the SEC Inspector General’s scathing report on the matter, as the basis for a lawsuit in federal court seeking millions in damages. Now, even a defendant in a Madoff-related SEC ...

Report: SEC Bungled Madoff Investigation
cbsnews.com 9/3/2009 — Inspector General's Findings Reads Like a Roadmap of Jaw-Dropping Incompetence

Madoff Claimed He Was "On The Short List" To Be Next SEC Chairman
huffingtonpost.com 9/3/2009 — Bernard Madoff once boasted that he "was on the short list" to be the next chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, according to a report issued Wednesday by the agency's internal watchdog. The blistering report offers new details into how ...

SEC Very Quietly Settles Case Against Bernard Madoff
securitiesdocket.com 6/17/2009 — In one of the most anticlimactic and unsatisfactory resolutions of an SEC matter in recent memory, the SEC settled its civil fraud charges against Bernard Madoff yesterday. In short, the resolution of the SEC case bars Madoff from associating with any broker, dealer or investment adviser. As ...

Fixing the SEC
ritholtz.com 10/1/2009 — The problems at the SEC were decades in the making. Essentially the largest prosecutor’s office in the country, they have been undercut at every turn: Their staffing was far too small to handle the jurisdiction (Wall Street and corporate ...

Executive Summary of SEC IG’s Madoff Report Now Available
securitiesdocket.com 9/2/2009 — The SEC has released the Executive Summary portion of SEC Inspector General H. David Kotz’s 450-page report on the Bernard Madoff matter. A copy is available here .

Financial Statement Manipulation An Ever-Present Problem For Investors — Investopedia.com Headlines 11/2/2009
The SEC has taken steps to eliminate this type of corporate fraud, but it remains a real risk for investors.