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The Department of Justice brought what is perhaps the most significant market crisis case to date, named as defendants rating agency Standard & Poor’s Financial Services LLC and its parent McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. The case focuses on ratings given to …

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The SEC and the U.S. Attorney for the District of Connecticut filed, respectively, civil and criminal fraud charges against a former account executive at Jefferies & Co. arising out of the financial crisis. The charges center on the sale of …

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