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Criminal litigation authority is on a whitelist, not a blacklist. It's not that a law restricted them, it's that they simply were never granted that authority. Random government authorities can't bring criminal proceedings anymore than the meter maid writing a parking ticket has the ability to haul you to court for parking in the wrong place. They send the information along to the people who do have that authority an…
> The key words in the article are "civil, not criminal". My keyword is why .
IF you are asking "Why hasn't the SEC been granted the power to send people to jail?", then that's a deeper philosophical question. There would be a concern that the diffusion of such powers could be abused or wielded by non-judicial-experts who aren't necessarily acting in the interests of justice and broader public policy, and more generally the principle of separation of powers discourages such to prevent tyranny/the abuse of state power.