{"id":4137,"date":"2010-01-14T17:37:21","date_gmt":"2010-01-14T22:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=4137"},"modified":"2011-02-17T16:42:02","modified_gmt":"2011-02-17T21:42:02","slug":"sec-revamping-enforcement-arm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2010\/01\/14\/sec-revamping-enforcement-arm\/","title":{"rendered":"SEC revamping enforcement arm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-4138\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2010\/01\/SEC-logo-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"SEC logo\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2010\/01\/SEC-logo-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2010\/01\/SEC-logo.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>The Securities and Exchange Commission is <a title=\"upgrading itself\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/01\/13\/AR2010011304443.html\" target=\"_blank\">upgrading itself<\/a>, creating specialized units within its enforcement arm and offering financial-insider informants immunity from prosecution.\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 veteran of both the SEC and Wall Street, says the immunity for witnesses can help insure investors that the market is still relative safe.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Offering immunity to a securities fraud participant in exchange for testimony is a small price to pay for the ability to bring down major fraud schemes that would otherwise be hard to prove.&#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 upgrading itself, creating specialized units within its enforcement arm and offering financial-insider informants immunity from prosecution.\u00a0 Law Professor Elizabeth Nowicki, a veteran of both the SEC and Wall Street, says the immunity for witnesses can help insure investors that the market is still relative safe. &#8220;Offering immunity to a [&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":[1236,743,1334],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4137"}],"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=4137"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8198,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4137\/revisions\/8198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}