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But federal securities law prohibits RICO claims when simple fraud claims can be brought instead.
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The latest was Richard Causey, Enron's former chief accounting officer, who was to have gone on trial but instead pleaded guilty to one count of securities fraud.
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Goldfarb was originally charged with Securities Fraud in November 2009, but in April of this year the government presented new charges on insider trading against him, Zvi Goffer, Emanuel Goffer, Craig Drimal, and Michael Kimelmen.
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But the comparable Dodd-Frank provision applicable to securities fraud whistleblowers is different.
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But I'm not sure he understands the securities laws or the legal definition of fraud.
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But to what extent, one must ask, do vaguely-worded laws against securities fraud in the U.S. provide a similar lack of notice?
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Scientific-Atlanta, which poses the question of whether, if there were securities fraud, the victims could go after not just a company that engaged in it but the company's vendors (I participated in an amicus brief that argued against holding vendors liable).
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