The 5 + 5 + 5 of SEC Defense | Oberheiden P.C.
To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) investigates companies (and individuals) for a broad range of federal offenses. This includes offenses that are both civil and criminal in nature, and that can carry penalties ranging from five-figure fines to hundreds of millions of dollars in total liability plus decades of prison time. In short, there is a lot of variability in the SEC’s enforcement efforts, and the scope of an investigation won’t necessarily be readily-apparent from the outset. Even setting aside the potent...