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What is a securities fraud?

April 26, 2017fraud securities

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What is a securities fraud?

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Generally, when an officer of a publicly traded corporation lies on the corporation’s financial statements the officer is committing securities fraud. This is typically done for the purpose of increasing the value of the corporation’s stock, or to keep the value of the stock from decreasing.