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VMware Settles SEC Charges with $8 Million Penalty for Obscuring Financial Performance

Sept. 12, 2022 —The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged VMware Inc. for misleading investors about its order backlog management practices, which enabled the Palo Alto, California-based technology company to push revenue into future quarters by delaying product deliveries to customers, concealing the company’s slowing performance relative to its projections. […]

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SEC Charges Advisory Firm with an Elaborate Scheme to Defraud Clients out of More Than $75 Million

Aug. 30, 2022 — The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged two North Carolina-based executives, Gregory E. Lindberg and Christopher Herwig, and their Malta-based registered investment adviser, Standard Advisory Services Limited, for defrauding clients out of more than $75 million through undisclosed transactions that benefited themselves and their companies. According […]

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SEC Adopts Pay Versus Performance Disclosure Rules

Aug. 25, 2022 — The Securities and Exchange Commission today adopted amendments to its rules to require registrants to disclose information reflecting the relationship between executive compensation actually paid by a registrant and the registrant’s financial performance. The rules implement a requirement mandated by the Dodd-Frank Act. The Commission proposed […]

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SEC Charges Former Congressman with Insider Trading

Stephen Buyer allegedly used inside information to buy $1.5 million in stocks. Criminal case pending as well July 25, 2022 – The Securities and Exchange Commission today filed insider trading charges against Stephen Buyer, a former U.S. Representative for Indiana’s 4th Congressional District. According to the SEC’s complaint, after leaving […]