You have it...i.e. liability. That is, you are liable for fraud if your company commits it, and you can be proven to have been complicit in the reporting...even if you didn't commit the fraudulent act itself. So be wary when you bean count. Your a$$ and $$ are on the line when you sign.
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Enforcement Act of 1988? all right well the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934
aka the 34 Act made it formally illegal to use inside information in trading
stocks amazingly that used to not be illegal or at least not explicitly so [People gambling]
and it wasn't enforced investing was well a clubby white man's insiders gig
and the boys took care of the boys well since people could make a lot of
money with insider information and thought they wouldn't get caught like [Boy peeing at a urinal]
well who's gonna know that I overheard the CEO of big company talking about a
merger in a Denny's washroom you know some folks pretty much ignored
the law well the 1988 law was basically Congress saying you guys were really [Congressman discussing the 1988 law]
serious about this so this new legislation added some hefty penalties
if you get caught as an inside trader people still trade on insider
information though and they still get caught and they go to jail and they lose [Jail door closes on man]
everything they have so he's got to realize some of us were just born to be
bad...
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