Why The Case Against Cuban Smells Fishy »

Posted By MyWayOnNow 1 year, 1 month ago in Business & Finance

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It’s a classic PR play: When you start to look like the bad guy, call out a bigger bad guy.

And it seems to be the strategy that the Securities and Exchange Commission — besieged by accusations of lax enforcement before and during the credit crisis — is using in going after Mark Cuban for insider trading in Mamma.com (now called Copernic), a search also-ran whose management has, in Cuban’s own judgment, “a checkered past.”