Enforcement

Malachi Financial Products Inc. and its principal were charged with violating their fiduciary duty to a city in Mississippi, overcharging the city, and failing to disclose payments received from the underwriter.

After a bumpy but overall successful launch of markup disclosure, the muni industry looks ahead to regulatory scrutiny and finding ways to use the new data.

Deutsche Bank Securities and Central States Capital Markets agreed to settle with FINRA for a combined $80,000.

Jose Ramírez has yet to acknowledge wrongdoing in misleading investors about Puerto Rico debt and may pose a continued threat to investors, SEC lawyers told a federal judge.

The SEC contends it played fairly in prosecuting its case against Wells Fargo Securities and Peter Cannava, denying the defense's allegations of dishonest "legal gamesmanship."

Ex-Morgan Stanley branch manager Terry Lee McCoy failed to act on several "red flags" that the accounts of an elderly and incapacitated customer were being abused, FINRA said.

Navnoor Kang, a former director at the New York State Common Retirement Fund, wants home confinement rather than prison.

Two town officials also received civil penalties totaling $35,000 and were ordered to resign and be temporarily barred from employment with Ramapo, N.Y.

The IRS Office of Professional Responsibility took no action on the misconduct allegation against Brad Waterman, but informed him that a record of it would be kept for 25 years and revisited if needed.

Wells Fargo Securities and banker Peter Cannava are alleging the SEC was dishonest in crafting investors' statements and failed to turn them over to defense attorneys in the 38 Studios case.

Early returns indicate there have been some problems but firms seem to be working through them in complying with the new markup rules, regulators and industry officials said Tuesday.

The IRS is focusing on $435.2 million of Series 2014A senior lien revenue refunding bonds and $75.87 million of Series 2014C second lien revenue refunding bonds.

FINRA found that Gates Capital and three of its employees breached several MSRB rules, some related to role-switching from advisor to underwriter on the same transaction.

A muni advisor and his firm defrauded a school district in south Texas, lying to it to gain business and failing to disclose a conflict of interest.

Lombard Securities and McDonald Partners agreed to pay fines after FINRA examiners found various violations of MSRB rules, including supervisory failures and trade reporting deficiencies.

The proposed legislation formally allows certain but not all taxpayers to have access to their IRS audit case file prior to dispute resolution hearings, ending the requirement to file a request under the Freedom of Information Act.

Chicago suburb warns of "catastrophic” impact of state withholding funds.

An unsealed whistleblower lawsuit accuses eight Wall Street and regional banks and broker-dealers that served as remarketing agents of fraud and collusion in resetting rates for variable rate demand obligations issued by state and local issuers in Illinois.

The SEC wants a quick end to its case against former Ramapo, N.Y. town supervisor Christopher St. Lawrence, but St. Lawrence's lawyer wants a federal judge to proceed to trial.

The proposal would allow taxpayers to have access to their IRS audit case file prior to dispute resolution hearings, ending the requirement to file requests under the Freedom of Information Act.