Thereafter, he worked for almost four years as Senior Counsel in the Enforcement Division of the SEC, where he learned how the SEC investigates and prosecutes. For part of that time, Mr. Chase served as a Special Assistant United States Attorney in the Economic Crimes Division in the Southern District of Florida. While a Government criminal prosecutor and SEC Enforcement attorney, Mr. Chase handled exclusively securities fraud cases, including insider trading, Ponzi schemes, market manipulations, securities offering, municipal bond fraud and broker-dealer sales practice violations.