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"… ght not be doing a very good job.From January 2008 through March 2010, the SEC’s Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations, or OCIE, launched 477 investigations into companies that had been granted …"

"… compliance issues.”FAST FACT: One in 10 investigations undertaken by the SEC’s Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations between January 2008 and April 2010 involved a financial entity that had b …"