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In the midst of the global recession, economic crime in Canada jumped to its highest in six years in 2009 while decreasing worldwide during the same period. Fifty-six percent of Canadian companies were victims of economic crime in the last 12 months,...
Tags: economic crime, Steven Henderson, Canada Highest, Canada, Toronto, Political corruption, Tort law, Fraud, Deception, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Business Finance, Crimes, Securities fraud, Insurance, Law Crime
S, Antigua (AP) — Antigua will restructure its financial system following the collapse of R. Allen Stanford's island-based empire when his alleged investment fraud unraveled, the governor general said Monday. Laws will be amended to ensure adequate monitoring...
Tags: R. Allen Stanford, Stanford International Bank Ltd., Antigua, Houston, Securities fraud, Charles Ponzi, Louise Lake-Tack, Ponzi scheme, St. John's Antigua and Barbuda, Business Finance, Stanford Financial Group, Allen Stanford, Fraud, Politics, Law Crime
Fla. — A Florida man accused of running a Ponzi scheme that scammed more than $14 million from Haitian-American investors has pleaded guilty. Brian Taglieri pleaded guilty last week to conspiring to commit securities fraud...The 49-year-old faces up to...
Tags: pleading guilty, loan scheme, Haiti, Port-au-Prince, Tort law, Crimes, Deception, Fraud, Law Crime, Charles Ponzi, Ponzi scheme, Securities fraud, Confidence trick, Joseph S. Forte, Confidence tricksters
Irving Picard, the liquidator for Bernard Madoff's investment-advisory business, asked a judge to approve $22.1 million in fees for him and his team with the law firm Baker & Hostetler, for five months of work. The fees, which include a 10 percent "public...
Tags: Bernard Madoff, U.S, Manhattan, Mr. Madoff, Baker & Hostetler LLP, law firm, bankruptcy court, Irving Picard, New York City, NASDAQ, Recovery of funds from the Madoff investment scandal, Securities Investor Protection Corporation, Madoff investment scandal, economics, Confidence tricksters, Business Finance, Bankruptcy, Law Crime, Ponzi scheme, Frank DiPascali, Charles Ponzi, Jed S. Rakoff, United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, Securities fraud, Madoff, Participants in the Madoff investment scandal
N.J. — A Southern New Jersey securities broker who operated a $1.8 million investment fraud scheme has been sentenced to more than eight years in prison. Jeffrey Southard of Pittsgrove also must make full restitution and serve three years of supervised...
Tags: Seattle, Tort law, Charles Ponzi, Mortgage broker, Confidence trick, Ponzi scheme, Deception, Fraud, Crimes, Law Crime, Business Finance, Securities fraud, Madoff investment scandal, Phillip E. Hill Sr.
Insider stock transactions – the buying and selling of stock by corporate “insiders” – won’t tell you where the overall stock market is headed. But the analysis of this type of legal insider trading can be a handy indicator when it comes to making buy...
Tags: insiders trade, insiders sell, insiders buy, individual stock, corporations insiders, insiders sales, board members, stock sales, stock price, overall market, Baltimore, Insider trading, Insider, Stock, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Securities fraud, Stock market, Corruption, Financial crimes, Business Finance
Five weeks ago, the largest insider trading case of recent years exploded into view with the arrest of the head of New York's Galleon Group hedge fund, and five senior business and high-tech executives, including three in the Bay Area. The shock waves...
Tags: insider information, insider trade, Ali Hariri San Francisco, Raj Rajaratnam, Anil Kumar Saratoga, Bay Area, Rajiv Goel Los Altos, Sam Miri, Polycom Inc., allegedly passed, Jacksonville, Advanced Micro Devices, Insider trading, Galleon, Securities fraud, Corruption, Financial crimes, Semiconductor companies, Business Finance, Law Crime
The Securities and Exchange Commission has charged a San Diego County man with securities fraud, saying he targeted Somali immigrants in San Diego and Seattle. In a complaint filed Thursday, the SEC says 45-year-old Mohamud A. Ahmed of Spring Valley and...
Tags: San Diego County, Somalis, Mohamud A. Ahmed, county man, targeted somalis, Seattle, SEC, San Diego, Securities fraud, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Somali people, Securities, Corruption, Fraud, Law Crime
A Louisiana businessman was charged Friday with engaging in a Ponzi scheme to defraud about 160 investors — mostly elderly people — out of roughly $19.5 million and using some of the money to pay for cars, cruises, sports tickets and a house...Pizzolato,...
Tags: Matthew B. Pizzolato, ponzi scheme, grand jury, Ponzi, Ponchatoula, Jim Letten, New Orleans, Charles Ponzi, Securities fraud, Confidence trick, Tangipahoa Parish Louisiana, Fraud, Deception, Confidence tricksters, Law Crime
Inland Empire Prosecutors say they sold false real estate investments and committed grand theft in a scheme that bilked clients of $17 million and left many broke. Three Riverside County businessmen and four associates were criminally charged Thursday...
Tags: grand theft, Seattle, Tort law, Mortgage fraud, Crimes, Deception, Fraud, Law Crime, Securities fraud, Business Finance