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- THE WEEK, Page 22BUSINESSWall Street Watchdog Takes a Bite
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- The SEC moves to discipline former Salomon Brothers executives
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- The Securities and Exchange Commission finally dropped the
- gavel in the Salomon Brothers trading scandal. In its toughest
- enforcement action in the case, the SEC filed a civil lawsuit
- against the two former Salomon executives who allegedly
- engineered the 1991 scheme to submit phony bids in U.S.
- Treasury auctions. The government is seeking unspecified fines
- and court injunctions against former managing directors Paul
- Mozer and Thomas Murphy. Mozer and Murphy, who both contest the
- suit, also face possible criminal indictments. But not all of
- the SEC's actions had as much bite. In a settlement that some
- observers criticized as toothless, the federal watchdog agency
- fined three former top managers a combined $225,000 for their
- failure to provide proper supervision. John Gutfreund, chairman,
- was fined $100,000 and permanently barred from running a
- securities firm. Thomas Strauss, president, and John Meriwether,
- vice chairman, were both fined and suspended from Wall Street
- activities for three to six months.
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