The Securities and Exchange Commission has turned up the heat on a major Republican fundraiser Elliott B. Broidy.

The story of Danny Pang, a West Coast money manager charged with conducting a massive Ponzi scheme, took a dramatic and mysterious turn with his death last weekend.

The SEC filed suit Monday against a New York company and four individuals, accusing them of feeding billions to Bernard Madoff’s Ponzi scheme.

The SEC has charged three former top executives of Countrywide Financial Corp. with deliberately deceiving investors

A man who fundamentally changed the nature of investing in this country has been accused of misleading investors last year.

Linda Chatman Thomsen, who took heat for the Securities and Exchange Commission’s failure to detect Bernard L. Madoff’s ongoing fraud, is returning to private practice with her former law firm.

Robert Khuzami’s experience as a prosecutor of terrorists and white-collar criminals would seem to trump his political preferences.

It was Bernard Madoff’s financial meltdown that helped implicate R. Allen Stanford, the flamboyant Texas billionaire accused of defrauding investors of $8 billion.

Bernard Madoff and the Securities and Exchange Commission have agreed to a partial settlement of civil suit accusing Madoff of defrauding investors.

The Wall Street trader who engineered what may be the largest scheme in history to defraud investors spent nearly $1 million to lobby lawmakers and members of the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Using expert consultants is common in business and government. SEC Inspector General David Kotz used one in his report that slams the agency for missing numerous red flags that foreshadowed the collapse of Bear Stearns.

Finding a scapegoat within his own party, Republican Sen. John McCain said Thursday that if he were president he would fire Christopher C. Cox, the chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

Difficult times for a company mean difficult times for its board of directors.

And these certainly are difficult times for Washington Mutual, the nation’s largest savings and loan.

Because of losses related to subprime mortgage lending, the Seattle-based firm has closed operations, cut jobs, slashed its dividend, and watched the price of its stock plummet to its lowest level in more than 11 years, closing Friday at $13.07.

Does the Securities and Exchange Commission favor business over investors?

Absolutely not, says chairman Chairman Christopher Cox, a former free-market Republican congressman.