Yes, but this is history repeating itself. The SEC introduced laws to prevent this happening again but they have failed, not because the laws do not work, but because the SEC do not enforce them.
In fact it is worse than that, the SEC positively works to cover up criminal wrong doing in the US markets.
It would not happen in Canada or most other places for that matter.
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