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Published 11/03/2009 by Business Insider

The SEC Is Acting Like A Litigator

Late Friday afternoon, the SEC released the exhibits from its investigation of how it missed the Bernie Madoff Ponzi scheme.

And it wasn't just a document dump, it was a cumersome one -- a long list of 500-plus docs, not searchable, description-less. Each document had to be individually...

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