US Securities Law - any idea how ironic that sounds here in the land of Wall Street?
Actually, considering what our Banksters get away with, I'm pleasantly surprised to find any SEC charges.
FCPA Unit Statistics 2017 • 24 individuals charged • 18 individuals pleaded guilty • 3 individuals convicted at trial • 7 corporate criminal enforcement actions, resulting in $822 million in corporate U.S. criminal fines, penalties, and forfeiture, and total enforcement action amounts payable to U.S. and foreign authorities of $2.5 billion • 2 declinations under the former FCPA Pilot Program in which the companies agreed to disgorge illicit profits totaling more than $15.2 million to either the Department or the SEC.
Sadly, the fines never seem to go to the victims of these frauds. And the fines are often considered simple cost of doing business.
Especially outrageous are the Bank Drug Cartel Laundering cases.