NBA basketball team owner Mark Cuban wants to help the SEC investigate him, so he’s offering to hire a bunch of attorneys to help move the investigation along more quickly, Bloomberg reports. 
 
 Cuban, owner of the Dallas Mavericks, is being investigated for insider trading. He has requested under the Freedom of Information Act that certain agency documents be made available to him. The timetable to get the investigation complete is around eight months, but Cuban wants it done and gone quicker. 
 
 The New York Observer says: 
 
 “Melinda Hardy, an SEC attorney, said in court that Cuban’s offer was unprecedented. She said the agency is concerned people with “deep pockets would come in and go to the front of the line.” 
 
 The proposal to pay for the document review was made after U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton said he lacked authority to order the SEC to shift resources to accommodate Cuban’s request, and that there was little hope of additional funds from Congress. 
 
 Walton said: 
 
 “Contrary to popular belief, the federal government is going broke.” 
 
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 Wealthy basketball enthusiast Mark Cuban is looking to throw some money in the direction of the Securities and Exchange Commission in hopes of expediting the agency's insider-trading beef against him, Bloomberg reports. 
 
 Cuban's attorneys have proposed hiring contract attorneys to help the SEC go through its mountainous files on the cheeky Internet entrepreneur, who has requested under the Freedom of Information Act that certain agency documents be made available to him. 
 
 Currently, SEC review of the documents is projected to take eight months. Nevertheless, the government is not exactly excited that Cuban has offered to help: 
 
 Melinda Hardy, an SEC attorney, said in court that Cuban's offer was unprecedented. She said the agency is concerned people with "deep pockets would come in and go to the front of the line." 
 
 It truly would be unprecedented for a wealthy person to shrug off the impact of an SEC investigation. The mind boggles at the very notion. 
 
 mtaylor [at] observer.com | @mbrookstaylor
– Mark Cuban has so much money he wants to help the poor SEC pay for an investigation of, well, Mark Cuban. Accused of insider trading for his Mamma.com deal, Cuban figures that the slow-reading SEC attorneys will take eight months to wade through all the paperwork. So Cuban offered to throw some money at hiring a team of lawyers to help out, reports the New York Observer. So far, the US district judge isn't taking him up on it, and an SEC spokeswoman worries that those with "deep pockets would go to the front of the line." (Where is the "duh" button?) Read the full article.