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- <text id=90TT0069>
- <title>
- Jan. 08, 1990: Business Notes:Regulation
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Jan. 08, 1990 When Tyrants Fall
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 60
- Business Notes
- REGULATION
- Turning from Wall to Main
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- <body>
- <p> The Securities and Exchange Commission has a new top
- watchdog. After toiling for twelve years as an SEC staff
- attorney, William R. McLucas, 39, last week was named director
- of enforcement. He succeeds Gary Lynch, 39, bane of inside
- traders Ivan Boesky and Dennis Levine, who resigned last summer
- to take a job at a New York City law firm. McLucas suggested
- that after years of prosecuting high-profile Wall Street
- insider-trading cases, the agency might additionally focus more
- closely on basic securities abuses, in which brokers exploit
- unsophisticated small Main Street investors.
- </p>
- <p> SEC Chairman Richard Breeden announced the formation of a
- new 25-person SEC unit to combat securities violations at
- financial institutions. One of the group's goals: to prevent
- more disasters like the case of Lincoln Savings & Loan, whose
- chairman, Charles Keating, managed to run up $2.5 billion in
- losses, driving the California thrift into bankruptcy. With
- S&Ls foundering almost daily, the gesture seems like an
- afterthought--and an undersized one at that.
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- </body>
- </article>
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