Over the past 35 years, the overall number of enforcement actions taken annually by the SEC has consistently risen. In 1985, the SEC brought about 300 such actions. In recent years, that number has hovered above 800. In 2019, the SEC took 862 total enforcement...
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Month: December 2020
The Platinum Case: How One Defendant Lost Even Though He Won
Increasingly, judges and lawyers are calling attention to the excesses of white-collar sentencing under the federal sentencing guidelines. Defendants found guilty of economic crimes have never been especially sympathetic, to put it mildly, so this trend is noteworthy...