Friday, February 13, 2009

Toothless SEC-12

"Merrill Lynch failed to disclose certain conflicts of interest to its pension consulting clients, the [SEC] charged on Friday. ... The company didn't admit or deny the allegations but did agree to a censure and a cease-and-desist order", my emphasis, Michael Crittenden at the WSJ, 31 January 2009.

Yet another SEC enforcement triumph.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

More SEC footsie with the Street establishment...

"Mother Merrill did'nt admit heisting their pension clients..."

I'm sure just another unfortunate oversight...

Anonymous said...

In related news the police caught a burglar and while the burglar did not admit to being a burglar he did agree to be censored by the police, return 1/10 of the stolen goods and sign a decree saying he would try not to get caught again.

DJF