SEC Enforcement Chief Calls Insider Trading 'Rampant'

Speaking to reporters at a conference on securities fraud, Linda Chatman Thomsen, director of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s enforcement division, said insider trading has become “rampant” on Wall Street and that the Commission will be bringing more cases, Reuters reports.

“I am disappointed in the number of cases we are seeing by people who make an abundant livelihood in the market that they are abusing by insider trading,” she said.

Attorney General of the Criminal Division at the Justice Department Alice Fisher added: “The number of insider trading cases doesn’t seem to be going away.”

Thomsen also said that there will be more enforcement actions related to options backdating and potential cases related to the sales and disclosure of subprime loans.

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