Wall Street scandals put SEC in hot seat

With the disclosure of the gigantic swindle perpetrated by some dude most Americans never heard of — Bernard L. Madoff — one doesn’t have to look hard to find at least a partial enabler in this stultifying drama. It is, of course, the Securities and Exchange Commission, the institution created during the Great Depression to stop just such an activity.

By: Dan Thomasson, The Dickinson Press