TIMELINE: SOROS AND THE LAW 1979: Soros signs a consent decree in United States District Court, in a Securities and Exchange Commission case involving stock manipulation. Source: Connie Bruck, "The World According to Soros," The New Yorker, January 23, 1995. 1986: Soros fined $75,000 by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission "for having held positions in excess of speculative limits." Source: Connie Bruck, "The World According to Soros," The New Yorker, January 23, 1995. 1990: Colombia initiates "Apertura" program, enabling drug kingpins to buy Colombian banks and more easily launder their drug money....contin - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/2594273.stm