Wall Street Journal:
There must be no bigger thrill as a prosecutor than getting to cross examine a defendant who’s looked the Fifth Amendment in the eye and said ‘I need you not, self-incrimination clause. I will take the stand.’It was that decision, made recently by Tom Petters and his lawyer, that presented such an opportunity to Minneapolis (Read More)
Wall Street Journal:
R. Allen Stanford. American International Group. Alcoa. Colonial BancGroup.Those are among the companies and individuals currently being investigated or prosecuted by the Justice Department’s fraud section, which handles complex financial cases and often swoops in to assist U.S. attorneys across the country. It also helps r (Read More)
SF Gate:
A federal grand jury in Eugene has indicted 13 people on mortgage and loan fraud charges arising from the collapse of a central Oregon development company. Acting U.S. Attorney Kent Robinson said Friday the actions of the defendants caused financial...
United States - Oregon - Grand jury - Indictment - Fraud. (Read More)
Reuters:
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Former Vivendi CEO Jean-Marie Messier told a U.S. jury he "never, never, never" committed fraud as he took the stand on Friday in a civil trial pitting international shareholders against the French conglomerate and former top executives.
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SF Gate:
The collapse of a Bend real estate development company has resulted in charges against 13 people in what prosecutors say is the largest Oregon fraud case to emerge from the national real estate boom and bust. A federal grand jury in Eugene returned five... Real estate - Real estate development - United States - Cent (Read More)
Financial Times:
Police and sport officials have dismantled a criminal ring suspected of unprecedented match-fixing and betting in European professional football. (Read More)
Wired Science:
A biologist walks into a sushi bar and orders some tuna. What does he get? Escolar, a nasty fish with buttery flesh that can cause bizarre episodes of diarrhea, accompanied by a waxy intestinal discharge.It’s not a joke. It happened five times to the same scientists during a brief research project. The results of that study (Read More)
Reuters: Private Equity:
ST. PAUL, Minn., Nov 20 (Reuters) - Minnesota businessman
Tom Petters made a final push on Friday to convince a federal
jury he was not responsible for a $3.65 billion Ponzi scheme
that bankrupted his company.
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New York Times:
The Securities and Exchange Commission must tighten its process for deciding which investment advisers to inspect if it is to avoid colossal breakdowns like the one that allowed Bernard L. Madoff's multibillion-dollar fraud to go undetected for 16 years, the agency's inspector general says. (Read More)
BBC News Player | World:
The Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi stands accused of tax fraud involving his media empire, but is now facing scrutiny on another front. A new film called Videocracy paints a very unflattering picture of his impact on Italian culture. (Read More)
Huffington Post:
NEW YORK — A Long Island woman convicted of acting as a "straw buyer" in a mortgage fraud scam has been ordered to give lectures on the perils of participating in such criminal schemes.Rebecca Tharpe, Brentwood, was sentenced in Queens Criminal Court on Wednesday after being convicted of falsifying business records. She is (Read More)