Remarks by Securities and Exchange Commission Chaiman, Christopher Cox, at the"SEC SPEAKS IN 2008" PROGRAM OF THE PRACTISING LAW INSTITUTE
I don't know how your morning was, but even before arriving at this outstanding opportunity for continuing education credit,
I've had a bit of an education today. Each day, I drive four teenage boys to Gonzaga College High School - and I learn a lot along the way. This is a Jesuit school, where they teach Latin. But I'm discovering that even though Latin is an ancient language, it's changed a lot since I studied it. For example, did you know that domino vobiscum means "the pizza guy is here?" Or that sic semper tyrannis means "your dinosaur is ill?"Perhaps the most relevant for all of us here in law enforcement this morning is what the classically-trained securities swindlers must be saying to themselves when they get caught: Et tu, pluribus unum? - which loosely translated means, "the U.S. government stabbed me in the back." ...
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