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On December 12, 2011, the SEC announced an enforcement proceeding that serves as a useful reminder that the federal laws against insider trading and misrepresentation apply as forcefully to private companies purchasing stock from employees and other shareholders as they do in the public company setting
On April 11th, Reuters reported that Kenneth Robinson, the alleged go-between who passed merger information and money between lawyer Matthew Kluger and trader Garrett Bauer, has pleaded guilty to insider trading
The United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida has reversed a bankruptcy court order that had required a group of lenders ("Transeastern Lenders") to disgorge, as a fraudulent transfer, approximately $421 million paid to them by a joint venture partner ("TOUSA") in satisfaction of their legitimate, uncontested loans to the joint venture that TOUSA had guaranteed
