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A study conducted by Columbia University finds concerns in this area as the SEC is receiving about $15,000 a year per subscription in exchange for providing a perferred data feed in which one receives information about ten seconds before the data is posted on the SEC's public web site.
Perhaps, it is time for the US Attorney General to look into this and conduct their own investigation to find out if front running is occurring.