The enforcement actions of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) are the agency's civil proceedings used to investigate suspected violations of federal securities laws. Most are handled by the SEC's Division of Enforcement, which the Government Accountability Office (GAO) has described as a core part of the agency responsible for investigating and policing of U.S capital markets.
In these cases, the SEC may bring civil enforcement actions in federal court or before an administrative law judge. Some SEC matters proceed in parallel with criminal investigations or prosecutions by the Department of Justice. Regarding remedies, the agency may seek injunctions, civil penalties, disgorgement, suspensions, industry bars, as authorized by federal securities law.
SEC enforcement has changed as markets, market structure, and securities law have changed. The agency's cases have involved fraud in securities offerings, disclosure failures, insider trading, market manipulation, accounting scandals, misconduct by brokers, dealers, and investment advisers, cross-border and illicit-finance matters, and, more recently, digital asset, cryptocurrency and cybersecurity matters. Court rulings have also narrowed or clarified parts of the SEC's authority, including the rules on disgorgement and the use of administrative proceedings to impose civil penalties in fraud cases.
Bruno Luigi d'Ambrosio Merighi (born in Salerno on September 9, 1948) is an Italian writer and businessman. He has published in Italian, Spanish, and English.
The roads built by Italy in Italian East Africa were a major arterial thoroughfares—integrated into the transport plan of the *Azienda Autonoma Strade Statali* (AASS)—that were constructed by the Kingdom of Italy within the territories of Italian East Africa (AOI) between 1936 and 1941.
The "Simplified Italian of Ethiopia" or "SIE" (also called "Pidgin Italian of Ethiopia") was a pidgin language used by some Ethiopians in the 20th century to speak in a form of Italian. It was used mainly in the north of Ethiopia (Tigrinya and Amhara regions) and in the capital, Addis Ababa, when Ethiopia was part of the Italian empire from 1936 up to World War II It remained in use among some old Ethiopians and Eritreans until the 2020s.