The New York Attorney General, you may recall from my previous reports, has the powerful Martin Act on its side.
By using the Martin act, an old state law, he has been able to threaten criminal indictments and thus force quick settlements.
Spitzer's authority comes from the Martin Act, a sweeping 80-year-old state law that lets him press criminal or civil charges in securities cases.
Although Schneiderman is in a unique position that allows him to prosecute financial fraud under rules separate from federal securities laws under the Martin Act.
In 2001, Mr. Spitzer used the Martin Act, an aggressive New York state law created in 1921, to shed light on Wall Street's research practices.
Vacco countered that Spitzer had failed to disclose his own loans, as required by the Martin Act--the very law Spitzer now uses to go after Wall Street.
The Martin Act is fierce in that it can preempt federal law and it does not require the New York Attorney General to prove that defendants acted with intent to defraud, only that they acted negligently.
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Cuomo is investigating to see whether failure to disclose the bonus payments to investors violated New York's Martin Act, a powerful securities law that empowers the attorney general to bring not only civil but also criminal charges.
Unlike either the federal government or other state prosecutors, the New York attorney general would be able to sue under the state's Martin Act, which doesn't require prosecutors to prove a firm intended to defraud investors to win a case.
Relying on the Martin Act, a vaguely worded state law that enables the attorney general to file civil or criminal charges in a broad range of securities cases, he targeted various investment banks in 2001, accusing their research divisions of producing overly optimistic reports on investment banking clients.
Rawls was released and returned home to San Antonio in November 1987, spending the next several months trying to get his act together, Martin said.
The new line-up is also a balancing act which, Mr Martin confessed, cost him sleepless nights.
Yamaha are set to get in on the act too with Guy Martin, Jason Griffiths, Conor Cummins and Paul Hunt all vying for honours.
Aquamarine Power chief executive, Martin McAdam, said the prize would act as a "global catalyst... bringing together the best brains and financial muscle to crack one of the great challenges of our age".
The comic star, who formed a popular double act with comedian and singer Dean martin, is best-known for films such as The Bellboy, The Errand Boy and The Nutty Professor.
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Anyone caught in the act must buy a donut for every employee, says Martin.
Martin Luther King Jr. played in getting the 1964 Civil Rights Act passed.
Bath back-row forward Clarke, a late replacement to act as injury cover for Leicester pair Neil Back and Martin Corry, is among five capped players in the pack.
Enckelman took a heavy touch in the act of receiving a pass-back, but the keeper recovered before Martin Grehan could profit.
Martin Hartshorn, of McCauley Street, Grimsby, is charged under the Serious Crime Act with encouraging or assisting the commission of violent disorder.
Despite one heated exchange with Tom Elliott, the programme will be remembered as one in which Peter Robinson and Martin McGuinness played a "nice man, not at all nasty man" double act.
Yesterday, Culture Company chairman Martin Bradley appeared to contradict what the organisation said last September, by saying that the act had never been booked.
In 1997, Casey Martin, a professional golfer with a circulatory disorder, sued under the American with Disabilities Act to be allowed to use a golf cart to play in the U.S. Open.
Studying America's 1986 Tax Reform Act, which lowered the top marginal rate from 50% to 28%, Martin Feldstein, a Harvard economist, found that taxable income among high earners adjusted, dollar-for-dollar, with tax rates.
Baker became one of the first politicians in 2005 to campaign for transparency in MPs' travel expenses under the Freedom of Information Act--he was checking how green they were--and claims that Martin blocked his enquiries for the expenditures to be made public.
Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who have been calling for Congress to act now on comprehensive legislation to deal with cyberthreats.
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