October 24, 2016 BY Valentina Kirilova

SEC charges board member with insider trading during and after board meeting

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has charged a Tennessee-based lawyer who served on the executive committee of the board of directors at Nashville-based Pinnacle Financial Partners with insider trading based on nonpublic information he learned about an impending merger. The SEC alleges that James C. Cope obtained more than $56,000 in ill-gotten gains by purchasing…

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