{"id":5543,"date":"2010-05-12T16:16:18","date_gmt":"2010-05-12T21:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=5543"},"modified":"2011-01-20T14:30:27","modified_gmt":"2011-01-20T19:30:27","slug":"morgan-stanley-new-fed-target","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2010\/05\/12\/morgan-stanley-new-fed-target\/","title":{"rendered":"Morgan Stanley new Fed target"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-5544\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2010\/05\/Morgan-Stanley-sign-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Morgan Stanley sign\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" \/>Wall Street investment bank <a href=\"http:\/\/www.morganstanley.com\/\">Morgan Stanley<\/a> reportedly is being <a title=\"investigated\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/05\/12\/AR2010051201609.html\" target=\"_blank\">investigated<\/a> by federal authorities to see if it misled investors about mortage-derivatives deals it helped design and sometimes bet against.\u00a0 This is on the heels of the Securities and Exchange Commission charging <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.goldmansachs.com\/\">Goldman Sachs<\/a> with securities fraud involving similar collateralized debt obligations or CDOs.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/\">Law <\/a>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 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sec.gov\/\">SEC<\/a> attorney and Wall Street lawyer,\u00a0says this suggests Morgan Stanley might end up in the same position as Goldman is in.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;The federal government is now making clear that they will take the aggressive watchdog actions they have recently been chastised for not taking over the past two years.\u00a0 The bigger question is what other banks can expect a phone call from the SEC or the DoJ.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Contact Elizabeth Nowicki, 518-867-5355, <a href=\"mailto:enowicki@bu.edu\">enowicki@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wall Street investment bank Morgan Stanley reportedly is being investigated by federal authorities to see if it misled investors about mortage-derivatives deals it helped design and sometimes bet against.\u00a0 This is on the heels of the Securities and Exchange Commission charging Goldman Sachs with securities fraud involving similar collateralized debt obligations or CDOs.\u00a0 Law Professor [&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":[2797,2796,1177,1972,2690,2846,1047,1334,2308,1246],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5543"}],"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=5543"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7750,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5543\/revisions\/7750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}