{"id":5078,"date":"2010-04-06T17:14:12","date_gmt":"2010-04-06T22:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=5078"},"modified":"2011-01-20T14:44:47","modified_gmt":"2011-01-20T19:44:47","slug":"sec-trys-to-bolster-enforcement-image","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2010\/04\/06\/sec-trys-to-bolster-enforcement-image\/","title":{"rendered":"SEC trys to bolster enforcement image"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-5079\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2010\/04\/SEC-logo-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"SEC logo\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2010\/04\/SEC-logo-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2010\/04\/SEC-logo.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 120px) 100vw, 120px\" \/>For the past year the Securities and Exchange Commission has been trying to toughen up its weakened image.\u00a0 But it still faces <a title=\"skepticism\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/04\/05\/AR2010040504422.html?hpid=topnews\" target=\"_blank\">skepticism<\/a> about its ability to adequately enforce laws against corporate crime.\u00a0 Law Professor <a title=\"Tamar Frankel\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/faculty\/profiles\/bios\/full-time\/frankel_t.html\" target=\"_blank\">Tamar Frankel<\/a>, an authority on securities law and author of &#8220;<em>Trust and Honesty: America\u2019s Business Culture at a Crossroad,<\/em>&#8221; says it will take time.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;What brought us to this stage in years cannot be changed in one.\u00a0 The SEC should examine possible culprits, cooperate with local prosecutors, and establish a leadership aimed at restoring America&#8217;s trust in its institutions.\u00a0 And that takes time.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Contact Tamar Frankel, 617-353-3773, <a href=\"mailto:tfrankel@bu.edu\">tfrankel@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the past year the Securities and Exchange Commission has been trying to toughen up its weakened image.\u00a0 But it still faces skepticism about its ability to adequately enforce laws against corporate crime.\u00a0 Law Professor Tamar Frankel, an authority on securities law and author of &#8220;Trust and Honesty: America\u2019s Business Culture at a Crossroad,&#8221; says [&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":[2633,561,1334],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5078"}],"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=5078"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5083,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5078\/revisions\/5083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}