The U.S. SEC Commission was dealt a setback in its cases tied to the financial collapse when a Fed. judge dismissed large parts of its case against former company executives at failed mortgage lender IndyMac Bancorp. The securities fraud lawyers gives more imperative to financial crisis.
In a verbal order entered on Monday and released as a records on Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Manuel Real gave an in depth reason for siding with the suspects and rejecting many of the SEC's allegations in the case.
The suit is one of dozens of cases the SEC has brought against executives at important firms for conduct that allegedly fueled the financial crisis.
The underlying theme in the IndyMac case along with other cases, is that company management didn't adequately disclose risks as issues appeared in 2007 and 2008.
The SEC has sued previous company management at mortgage finance agencies Fannie Mae (OBB:FNMA.OB - News) and Freddie Mac (OBB:FMCC.OB - Reports) on similar grounds, alleging that six previous top officials authorised misleading statements claiming the corporations had nominal holdings of higher-risk mortgage loans, including subprime loans.
In the IndyMac case, the SEC in Feb 2011 sued the bank's previous Boss Michael Perry and former finance chief Scott Keys.
The SEC is spreading accusations of stocks crime and said they withheld negative forecasts and misled investors in 2008 about the bank's capital raising efforts as the bank's fiscal condition worsened.
But the disclosures were neither false nor deceiving Real said.
The SEC had claimed, as an example, that the bank didn't disclose an internal prediction that showed the bank's capital ratio could fall below a 10 percent threshold required by regulators.
But firms were not required to disclose all internal projections, Real said.
The SEC also charged the executives of deceiving speculators about a stock purchase program and hiding the fact that it was getting used to raise capital.
Real related IndyMac had revealed the programme in other bits of the 10-K filing in question.
The SEC also claimed IndyMac made tricking statements about its liquidity, but the statements were true because they clearly only referred to 2007, Real recounted.
"Predictive statement are just what the name implies: Predictions. As such, any optimistic projections contained in such statements are always contingent," Real said.
An SEC spokesman recounted the agency is reviewing the decision.
PRESSURE TO BRING CASES
Top administration officers have claimed lots of the finance crisis was due to gluttony and recklessness, not necessarily illegal conduct.
Real's controlling appears to underline such a discussion.
"I assume the SEC has felt remarkable pressure to bring cases springing from the fiscal crisis," announced Gregory Bruch, a lawyer at Willkie Farr & Gallagher who represented Keys in the case. "I can't speak to the advantages of any other case, but often, that pressure has led to calls they will regret in the long run."
To make certain, the ruling is just one inside a larger case, and has no direct effect on other cases the SEC has brought.
"I believe the fairest assessment (of the SEC's record) is that the record is mixed," said Andrew Vollmer, a former assistant general counsel at the SEC who is now a lawyer at Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr.
"The commission has brought some good cases, well-grounded cases, and I believe they have brought some other cases where they have been criticized," he announced.
The ruling does not end the SEC's case against Perry, since charges related to two further instruments filings are still scheduled for trial next month.
"We still have a trial, and I just consider it a narrowing of the evidence," related Donald Searles, a senior trial lawyer in the LA regional office of the SEC who is litigating the case. "Each of the filings stands on their own."
NO DISGORGEMENT
Even minor details, according to the Monday controlling, the SEC got wrong.
Regulators had accused the managers of withholding info about deferring dividend payments, for instance. But the bank divulged the info within 2 business days of a board vote on the issue, Real claimed, which slipped within the required window.
And he defied the SEC's capability to get any disgorgement in the case, since both Perry and Keys sold no stock in the years under debate, received no bonus, and lost the value of their stock holdings when the company went bankrupt, Real asserted.
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp also sued Perry in a parallel case, and that legal action is still outstanding.
In a verbal order entered on Monday and released as a records on Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Manuel Real gave an in depth reason for siding with the suspects and rejecting many of the SEC's allegations in the case.
The suit is one of dozens of cases the SEC has brought against executives at important firms for conduct that allegedly fueled the financial crisis.
The underlying theme in the IndyMac case along with other cases, is that company management didn't adequately disclose risks as issues appeared in 2007 and 2008.
The SEC has sued previous company management at mortgage finance agencies Fannie Mae (OBB:FNMA.OB - News) and Freddie Mac (OBB:FMCC.OB - Reports) on similar grounds, alleging that six previous top officials authorised misleading statements claiming the corporations had nominal holdings of higher-risk mortgage loans, including subprime loans.
In the IndyMac case, the SEC in Feb 2011 sued the bank's previous Boss Michael Perry and former finance chief Scott Keys.
The SEC is spreading accusations of stocks crime and said they withheld negative forecasts and misled investors in 2008 about the bank's capital raising efforts as the bank's fiscal condition worsened.
But the disclosures were neither false nor deceiving Real said.
The SEC had claimed, as an example, that the bank didn't disclose an internal prediction that showed the bank's capital ratio could fall below a 10 percent threshold required by regulators.
But firms were not required to disclose all internal projections, Real said.
The SEC also charged the executives of deceiving speculators about a stock purchase program and hiding the fact that it was getting used to raise capital.
Real related IndyMac had revealed the programme in other bits of the 10-K filing in question.
The SEC also claimed IndyMac made tricking statements about its liquidity, but the statements were true because they clearly only referred to 2007, Real recounted.
"Predictive statement are just what the name implies: Predictions. As such, any optimistic projections contained in such statements are always contingent," Real said.
An SEC spokesman recounted the agency is reviewing the decision.
PRESSURE TO BRING CASES
Top administration officers have claimed lots of the finance crisis was due to gluttony and recklessness, not necessarily illegal conduct.
Real's controlling appears to underline such a discussion.
"I assume the SEC has felt remarkable pressure to bring cases springing from the fiscal crisis," announced Gregory Bruch, a lawyer at Willkie Farr & Gallagher who represented Keys in the case. "I can't speak to the advantages of any other case, but often, that pressure has led to calls they will regret in the long run."
To make certain, the ruling is just one inside a larger case, and has no direct effect on other cases the SEC has brought.
"I believe the fairest assessment (of the SEC's record) is that the record is mixed," said Andrew Vollmer, a former assistant general counsel at the SEC who is now a lawyer at Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr.
"The commission has brought some good cases, well-grounded cases, and I believe they have brought some other cases where they have been criticized," he announced.
The ruling does not end the SEC's case against Perry, since charges related to two further instruments filings are still scheduled for trial next month.
"We still have a trial, and I just consider it a narrowing of the evidence," related Donald Searles, a senior trial lawyer in the LA regional office of the SEC who is litigating the case. "Each of the filings stands on their own."
NO DISGORGEMENT
Even minor details, according to the Monday controlling, the SEC got wrong.
Regulators had accused the managers of withholding info about deferring dividend payments, for instance. But the bank divulged the info within 2 business days of a board vote on the issue, Real claimed, which slipped within the required window.
And he defied the SEC's capability to get any disgorgement in the case, since both Perry and Keys sold no stock in the years under debate, received no bonus, and lost the value of their stock holdings when the company went bankrupt, Real asserted.
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp also sued Perry in a parallel case, and that legal action is still outstanding.
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