Weighing SEC’s Crackdown on Fraud by Jean Eaglesham in the Wall Street Journal More than 100 people and firms have now been charged with fraud tied to the financial crisis by the Securities and Exchange Commission, but that hasn’t quelled criticism that the agency hasn’t cracked down hard enough.The SEC passed that milestone Friday when the regulator filed civil-fraud charges against two former Texas bank executives accused of using a loan-modification scheme to make bad… [read post]