On October 13, 2011, CREW filed a lawsuit against the Securities and Exchange Commission based on the agency’s failure to respond to a Freedom of Information Act request seeking documents reflecting the extent to which the SEC has lived up to its promise to reform its Enforcement Division. Over the past several years CREW has used the FOIA to monitor the SEC’s progress in implementing reforms that will better enable the agency to catch massive fraud schemes, such as those perpetuated by Bernard Madoff and Allen Stanford. The SEC and its Enforcement Division faced significant criticism from Congress, the public, and its own inspector general when it failed to act on tips it received over the course of years regarding Mr. Madoff’s Ponzi scheme. The SEC’s response to a previous FOIA request from CREW revealed some progress, but also that much work remained. The SEC has not provided any response to CREW’s latest FOIA request of June 13, 2011.