SEC enforcement

With the recent economic slowdown, companies are under increased pressure to show stability, or even growth, and paint a rosy picture for investors.

Mark Frissora will return nearly $2 million in incentive-based compensation to settle a U.S. regulator’s claims that he played a key role in causing the now-bankrupt car-rental company to file inaccurate financial statements in 2013.

The U.S. Supreme Court limited the power of the Securities and Exchange Commission to recoup illegal profits from wrongdoers, putting new curbs on one of the agency’s most potent legal weapons.

The short version of Hertz Global Holdings Inc.’s bankruptcy story goes something like this: Global pandemic obliterates the travel business and lands an iconic 102-year-old company in court to seek protection from creditors.

Who are the casualties of the SEC’s aggressive enforcement?

SEC charges revolved around how the insurer decided if clients were dead.

The complaints paint a picture of increasingly desperate measures undertaken by MiMedx’s top two officers to hit sales goals year after year.

The Justice Department investigation into the allergy shot would eventually cost the drug maker nearly $500 million.

The SEC settlement offers a rare glimpse into the steps that were taken to make sure more than $140 million paid to Nissan's ex-chairman wasn’t disclosed publicly.

PricewaterhouseCoopers agreed to settle SEC charges for engaging in improper professional conduct with 15 audit clients.