As the government’s fiscal year drew to a close at the end of last September, the Securities and Exchange Commission stepped up its enforcement efforts in the area of insider trading. As Commissioner Kathleen Casey noted in a speech in Forth Worth, Texas, earlier that month, insider trading is “another area of increased attention these days” and the SEC is “redoubling its efforts to combat insider trading.”
Significantly, the SEC’s insider-trading enforcement efforts in 2007 focused on hedge funds, investment advisers and, in an interesting twist, cases involving husbands and wives — so-called “pillow talk” cases.
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