SEC charges VMware with misleading investors by obscuring financial performance
$8 million USD penalty?  What kind of joke is this?<p>Is the intention to serve as a deterrent or a not-so-subtle endorsement?  Honestly, seems like the latter.<p>SEC seems to be full of industry insiders these days.  I pulled my positions and exited all stock market investments recently, that shit is rigged.<p>I'm thinking of adhering to a new policy where I only invest into things where I can hunt them down and hit them with a stick or at least call a particular individual human being in real life.  Otherwise incentives tend to get too perverse.