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THE WEEK, Page 22BUSINESSWall Street Watchdog Takes a Bite
The SEC moves to discipline former Salomon Brothers executives
The Securities and Exchange Commission finally dropped the
gavel in the Salomon Brothers trading scandal. In its toughest
enforcement action in the case, the SEC filed a civil lawsuit
against the two former Salomon executives who allegedly
engineered the 1991 scheme to submit phony bids in U.S.
Treasury auctions. The government is seeking unspecified fines
and court injunctions against former managing directors Paul
Mozer and Thomas Murphy. Mozer and Murphy, who both contest the
suit, also face possible criminal indictments. But not all of
the SEC's actions had as much bite. In a settlement that some
observers criticized as toothless, the federal watchdog agency
fined three former top managers a combined $225,000 for their
failure to provide proper supervision. John Gutfreund, chairman,
was fined $100,000 and permanently barred from running a
securities firm. Thomas Strauss, president, and John Meriwether,
vice chairman, were both fined and suspended from Wall Street
activities for three to six months.