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Insider gains, family betrayal, and high-tech market gaming in key SEC cases

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The SEC has recently closed three very different but equally brazen fraud cases, each a window into a distinct form of financial misconduct.

It is not often that the SEC’s enforcement docket reads like a crash course in the full spectrum of American financial misconduct. But July brought a trio of cases that, together, chart a tour through the modern landscape of white-collar fraud.

From a senior banking examiner at the Richmond