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Washington -- The Securities and Exchange Commissioned has charged two former Countrywide Financial Corp. executives with insider trading in a case that sprang from short trading of the company's stock just prior to the public release of disappointing financial results in October of 2004.
The SEC said that former Countrywide executives, Alan Cao of Woodland Hills, Calif., and Jun Shi of Moorpark, Calif., have agreed to pay a total of about $140,00 to settle the civil insider-trading charges.
The SEC alleges that the two traded Countrywide stock while aware of confidential information about third-quarter 2004 financial performance. Specifically, the two sold or shorted shares before Countrywide announced a decline in earnings and lowered its guidance, causing the company's share price to fall about 11% on Oct. 20, 2004.
The settlement required the two men to give up money improperly gained ...
Source: HighBeam Research, Former CFC VPs Charged by SEC.(Countrywide Financial Corp.'s former...