Wall Street is to the SEC what Big Pharma is to the FDA, but on a tiny scale. Not a conspiracy, but money causes a lot of cheating on the "Rules" and every once in a while somebody gets caught or made an example of.
So... "we would like to know your protocol, cough, cough....and not outloud, "Gilead pops us a little fee usually for this HIV thing" cough, cough.