US - The State of New Jersey has settled charges by the Securities and Exchange Commission that it fraudulently misled municipal-bond investors while underfunding the state's two biggest pension plans.
The cease-and-desist order concerned documents for more than $26bn in bond offerings from 2001 to 2007 that the regulator said "created the false impression" that the Teachers' Pension and Annuity ...
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