Internet auction sites, on which you sell stock in your own company, a charming arrangement that radiates a certain zany logic but, unfortunately, violates various registration, disclosure and distribution requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1933.
From the journals' online author instructions we extracted information regarding endorsement of four domains of editorial policy: the Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts, trial registration, disclosure of conflicts of interest and five major reporting guidelines such as the CONSORT (Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials) statement.
The lobbyists' frustration is compounded when the consultants work outside the definition of lobbying — in public relations or as political specialists — and thus skip those pesky registration disclosures to show which interests they really represent.
The sheriff's office in Harrisonburg, Va., said the supervisor, Colin Small, had been charged with 13 counts of destruction of voter registration applications, disclosure of voter registration information, and obstruction of justice.
He said that Congress might create a new federal regulator to oversee the companies and that lawmakers might also start requiring the companies to follow the registration and disclosure rules of the Securities and Exchange Commission.
She proposed legislation that would require "conduit borrowers" — businesses that can issue tax-exempt bonds through their relationships with municipalities — to follow corporate registration and disclosure standards instead of governmental ones.
"If someone on Wall Street is trying to make money off conversations they have with senators or staff, we should know who they are," said Senator Charles E. Grassley, Republican of Iowa, who proposed the registration and disclosure requirements.
Another part of the Senate bill would require registration and disclosure filing by "political intelligence" consultants, a busy new field in which Capitol Hill veterans use inside connections to shape advice sold to hedge funds and other investors.
These are not subject to the same registration and disclosure rules as normal shares, but can be sold only to sophisticated institutions, up to a maximum of 499 investors per issuer.
In many cases opponents of certain propagandists have succeeded in getting laws passed that have censored or suppressed propaganda or required registration and disclosure of the propagandists and of those who have paid them.
One petition, prepared in 2010 by the Sustainable Economies Law Center and, fittingly, paid for by a grass-roots crowdfunding effort, asks the S.E.C. to permit entrepreneurs to raise up to $100 per individual and an aggregate of up to $100,000 without requiring expensive registration and disclosure.
