Robert Crowe, the alleged fundraising expert for a pay-to-play scheme that took place in 2010 and 2011, is fighting the SEC’s fraud charges against him in Ohio federal court.

The IRS has sent auditors new procedures for information document requests sent to issuers.

The Iowa Fertilizer Co. LLC’s construction and cash flow troubles led Fitch Ratings to downgrade deeper into junk almost $1.2 billion of project bonds that are now under an Internal Revenue Service cloud.

A banker who serves on issuer charitable groups and donates to them raises conflict of interest questions.

Securities and Exchange Commission chair Mary Jo White said in a speech on Friday that the municipal securities market is an example of an area where the commission has brought to bear its “bolder and more unrelenting approach to enforcement to change industry behavior.”

Rebecca Harrigal, the first female director of the Internal Revenue Service’s Office of Tax Exempt Bonds, will leave her post at the agency next month to join a law firm.

The city of Mobile, Ala., has agreed to pay an undisclosed sum of money to the Internal Revenue Service to maintain the tax-exempt standing of $63.4 million of general obligation refunding and improvement warrants it issued in 2006.

The Securities and Exchange Commission’s whistleblower office fielded more allegations involving municipal securities and public pensions in fiscal year 2016 than ever before, according to a report the office sent to Congress about recent whistleblower activity.

Miami city commissioners will be asked Thursday to approve their first bond issue since a federal jury found the city guilty of violating securities fraud charges and paying a record $1 million settlement.

Securities and Exchange Commission chair Mary Jo White on Tuesday said the numerous violations the commission's municipal continuing disclosure enforcement initiative uncovered may mean the SEC needs direct regulatory authority over issuers.

Former Miami budget director Michael Boudreaux has been ruined financially fighting securities fraud charges and cannot pay a $450,000 civil penalty sought by the Securities and Exchange Commission, his attorney argued in a court filing Monday.

Issuers, borrowers, and MAs disagree that they violated state and local government series securities (SLGS) rules.

Securities and Exchange Commission chair Mary Jo White announced today that she will leave her position at the end of the Obama administration.

The Securities and Exchange Commission is seeking a $450,000 civil penalty against former Miami budget director Michael Boudreaux, who refused to reach a settlement after a jury found him guilty of securities fraud.

Scottrade has agreed to pay $150,000 to settle Financial Industry Regulatory Authority charges that it did not identify bonds as callable in approximately 5,000 municipal securities transactions.

A New York audit firm and one of its senior partners have agreed to pay a combined $555,000 and take a number of corrective actions to settle Securities and Exchange Commission charges that they issued fraudulent audit reports in connection with municipal bond offerings from the town of Ramapo, N.Y.

The Securities and Exchange Commission will continue to go after investment bankers and issuer officials to try to debunk the notion that enforcement is just another “cost of doing business,” an SEC official said here on Friday.

Underwriters should walk away from municipal securities transactions when they discover the issuer has failed to disclose key information, dealer officials said here, citing their own experiences as examples.

Tax controversy lawyer Brad Waterman argues allegations of misconduct against him are “payback” for his winning a student loan bond case.

A federal court judge has approved Miami's $1 million settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission over charges the city acted fraudulently in taking steps to hide its deteriorating financial condition from bondholders.