You're being way too polite. This is no different than theft under the color of law. "You have to sell your holdings in this company before you gut them. Congratulations on being assigned to the case."
It essentially allows the SEC employee to get out from under what is going to be a less valuable stock because of litigation, in advance, for a legal reason. The rest of us should be so "lucky".
Maybe the way to deal with this is to watch company stock sales, and when the SEC employees start selling, sell your holdings. Of course, then they'd come after you for selling based on "insider information".
Where would one find this information? Is there some public record of who sold stock that you or I could access?