SEC Announces Settled Enforcement Action
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is certainly sticking to its promise on being tougher on offenders this year. This morning, the SEC announced that a settled enforcement action had been placed against MetLife subsidiary General American Life Insurance Company (GALIC) and former GALIC senior vice president William Thater for their roles in a late trading scheme back in 2002. According to the announcement, Thater entered into a written agreement that gave a New York family - no name was mentioned in the article - exclusive late trading privileges in mutual funds supporting the private placement life insurance policies this…