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Supreme Court limits SEC's powers to impose fines
The U.S. Supreme Court declared unconstitutional the way the Securities and Exchange Commission imposes fines for fraudulent conduct and requires that wrongdoers give back their ill-gotten gains.
Amid high scrutiny, Boeing angers federal investigators
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