Under SOX Title XI, What Is the SEC Empowered to Do

question 37

Multiple Choice

Under SOX Title XI, what is the SEC empowered to do?

• A) Use the assets of the corporation it is investigating to pay for the on-going investigation.
• B) Lobby congress for specific laws to enable them to make gray areas they are investigating illegal for quicker conviction rates.
• C) Petition federal courts for temporary injunctions to freeze pending "extraordinary payments" to certain individuals under investigation for possible violations of Federal securities law.
• D) All of the above.

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