NewsForge has learned that U.S. federal regulators may have begun investigating the relationship between Microsoft and SCO.
Although the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) never officially makes public when it investigates an organization, an SEC staff member told NewsForge that complaints and tips about suspected under-the-table funding, stock-kiting, illegal insider trading, and money-laundering involving Microsoft or Microsoft-connected individuals to the financially struggling SCO Group have been coming into the agency with regularity since last August. The SEC “does not take such complaints lightly,” the source said.
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