In December, the state solicited proposals for outside securities-litigation services for North Carolina's various pension funds.

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Bowen will not be permitted to engage in outside securities-related sales activities.

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And courts have often looked askance at broadly using the laws on securities fraud to go after people outside of the business of issuing, underwriting and dealing in securities.

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