Throughout, jurors remained stone-faced as they followed the words on screens before them while Walsh read them aloud in a federal courthouse in Manhattan, where the charges of conspiracy to kidnap and improper use of a federal database system could bring Valle, 28, a life sentence if he's convicted.
Nester said the SEC has taken additional steps to enhance protections against "the potential for improper conduct, " including developing a new computer system to facilitate reporting and review of securities trading by all SEC personnel, hiring a chief compliance officer and providing greater clarity of rules governing the reporting of trades.