SEC Interest in Immigration Enforcement Tied to Audit Program
"There is a long list of crimes the Securities and Exchange Commission usually investigates. Now lawyers who closely watch the commission say it is adding disclosure of undocumented immigrant violations to that list," says Businessweek. "The SEC, which declined to comment by e-mail, would investigate a company's disclosures about an ICE audit to make sure they were complete, timely, and accurate, says Jacob Frenkel, a former SEC enforcement lawyer who stresses the commission's independence in these matters."