Couture, Wendy Gerwick - 2013
First, this essay argues that the materiality standard is lower under the relatively new criminal securities fraud … provision, § 807 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, 18 U.S.C. § 1348, than under the traditional securities fraud provision, § 10(b) of … implications of this lower materiality standard in criminal securities fraud prosecutions under § 1348, including the chilling of …