The grand hearing room of the Securities and Exchange Commission in Washington, D.C., was filled with two hundred congressional aides, federal securities regulators, and financial correspondents. At the witness table, seated side by side before the five commissioners of the SEC, sat Adrian Cross and Elena Vance. Chairman Robert Martinez looked down from the elevated dais, his expression stern and formidable. "Mr. Cross," Chairman Martinez spoke into his microphone, his…
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