{"id":4370,"date":"2010-02-09T15:49:18","date_gmt":"2010-02-09T20:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=4370"},"modified":"2011-02-17T14:58:14","modified_gmt":"2011-02-17T19:58:14","slug":"bofas-e-c-settlement-still-unsettled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2010\/02\/09\/bofas-e-c-settlement-still-unsettled\/","title":{"rendered":"BofA\/S.E.C. settlement still unsettled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-4371\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2010\/02\/scales-of-justice-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"scales of justice\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>Federal Judge Jed Rakoff suggests he <a title=\"may reject\" href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/idUSN0820537120100208\" target=\"_blank\">may reject <\/a>a $150 million proposed deal reached between Bank of America and the Securities and Exchange Commission to settle charges the bank misled shareholders when it took over Merrill Lynch.\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>, once an S.E.C. attorney, says she&#8217;s sympathetic to the S.E.C, but applauds the judge&#8217;s judicial guts.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;I am delighted that Judge Rakoff is unwilling to accept on blind faith a seemingly weak resolution of a very important and fairly egregious case.&#8221;<\/em>Contact Elizabeth Nowicki<em>, 617-353-2807, <a href=\"mailto:enowicki@bu.edu\">enowicki@bu.edu<\/a> <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Federal Judge Jed Rakoff suggests he may reject a $150 million proposed deal reached between Bank of America and the Securities and Exchange Commission to settle charges the bank misled shareholders when it took over Merrill Lynch.\u00a0 Law Professor Elizabeth Nowicki, once an S.E.C. attorney, says she&#8217;s sympathetic to the S.E.C, but applauds the judge&#8217;s [&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":[752,2359,753,561],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4370"}],"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=4370"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8136,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4370\/revisions\/8136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}