SEC, Wall Street system failed to detect Enron failure

Monday, October 7, 2002

WASHINGTON -- The Securities and Exchange Commission and Wall Street's system of informally policing big corporations failed in their duty to detect the impending accounting failure at Enron, a Senate panel finds in a new report.

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