{"id":3952,"date":"2009-12-11T16:25:35","date_gmt":"2009-12-11T21:25:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=3952"},"modified":"2011-02-17T16:45:26","modified_gmt":"2011-02-17T21:45:26","slug":"sec-widens-bofamerrill-probe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2009\/12\/11\/sec-widens-bofamerrill-probe\/","title":{"rendered":"SEC widens BofA\/Merrill probe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-3953\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2009\/12\/SEC-logo1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"SEC logo\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2009\/12\/SEC-logo1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2009\/12\/SEC-logo1.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>The Securities and Exchange Commission is widening its\u00a0probe of the Bank of American take-over Merrill Lynch to <a title=\"go beyond\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/12\/11\/AR2009121101958.html\" target=\"_blank\">go beyond\u00a0<\/a>failing to disclose\u00a0bonuses paid to Merrill employees to now include failure to disclose ML&#8217;s mounting losses.\u00a0 Law Professor <a title=\"Elizabeth Nowicki\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/faculty\/profiles\/bios\/visiting\/nowicki_e.html\" target=\"_blank\">Elizabeth Nowicki<\/a>, a former SEC and Wall Street attorney, says it&#8217;s about time.<\/p>\n<p><em>The SEC\u2019s expanding probe of Bank of America\u2019s egregious disclosure failures regarding Merrill Lynch is shocking only in that it has taken the SEC so long to expand it. The BofA disclosure problems are so blatant that even an ill-informed law student could identify them.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Contact Elizabeth Nowicki, 617-353-2807, <a href=\"mailto:enowicki@bu.edu\">enowicki@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Securities and Exchange Commission is widening its\u00a0probe of the Bank of American take-over Merrill Lynch to go beyond\u00a0failing to disclose\u00a0bonuses paid to Merrill employees to now include failure to disclose ML&#8217;s mounting losses.\u00a0 Law Professor Elizabeth Nowicki, a former SEC and Wall Street attorney, says it&#8217;s about time. The SEC\u2019s expanding probe of Bank [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4491],"tags":[752,78,113,1236,753,1334],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3952"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3952"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8245,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3952\/revisions\/8245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}