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Settlement is probably best for investors because they immediately get control of the company and Holmes basically gets nothing.

The job of the SEC is to protect investors so they are probably doing the right thing here.

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True, and besides having lost money, their investors also continue to lose credibility, considering the poor if not complete lack of due diligence on their part, as long as this fiasco is in the spotlights.

Yeah, I don't think she gets nothing. She was paid a salary for many years, I would't be surprised if it was a pretty hefty one. There were probably other perks, too (wasn't she known to fly private for business trips?). It looks like she simply relinquished some equity that probably wasn't worth very much anyway. This settlement doesn't look like much of a deterrent to future would-be fraudsters.

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