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Bankruptcy, Scandal Have California Town Reeling

By Richard C. PaddockNov 18th 2009 – 12:20PM

SAN FRANCISCO (Nov. 18) -- Farmers in the Eel River Valley dairy lands of Northern California looked up to Rich Ghilarducci. He ran the Humboldt Creamery, a thriving cooperative that increasingly pushed organic products. The former mayor of the town of Rio Dell made major contributions to local charities and headed the...

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Gupta's Alleged Insider Tip On Buffett-Goldman Deal, 'As Top Secret As You Could Get'

May 23rd 2012 - 04:02PM

The deal that gave Goldman Sachs Group Inc a $5 billion boost from renowned investor Warren Buffett at the height of the 2008 financial crisis was "as top secret as you could get," a leading banker testified at the insider-trading trial of onetime Goldman board member Rajat Gupta.

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Ex-Yahoo Director Charged With Insider Trading

May 23rd 2012 - 09:19AM

Federal prosecutors on Monday announced insider trading charges against a former Yahoo employee and a fund manager for illegally sharing and trading on secret company information.

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Richard (RJ) Eskow: 10 Reasons to Be Suspicious About Wall Street's Facebook Fiasco

May 23rd 2012 - 09:18AM

Three of Wall Street biggest and best-known financial institutions handled the Facebook IPO, so why were people immediately suspicious when the stock soared and then promptly tanked?

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How Financial Criminalization Crashed Economy, Goes Unpunished

May 23rd 2012 - 01:45AM

It is no exaggeration to say that since the 1980s, much of the American (and global) financial sector has become criminalized, creating an industry culture that tolerates or even encourages systematic fraud.

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Is JPMorgan's Loss a Canary in a Coal Mine?

May 16th 2012 - 06:31PM

That sound of shattered glass you've been hearing is the iconic portrait of Jamie Dimon splintering as it hits the floor of JPMorgan Chase.

SecuritiesFraud News From the Web

  • 06/01/12 Trading Curbs, JPMorgan CIO, Nasdaq OMX: Compliance Source: Bloomberg.com U.S. stock exchanges proposed changes to trading curbs meant to safeguard equity markets, revising an April 2011 proposal for a system that would prevent trades at prices outside a certain band.
  • 06/01/12 Morgan Stanley Boss Gorman Has No Sympathy for You or... Source: New York Observer - New York NY Morgan Stanley CEO James Gorman has no sympathy for Facebook investors who expected to profit from a first-day spike in share prices.
  • 06/01/12 Securities regulators to hold confab in Salt Lake Source: Canadian Business An association of securities regulators says it will hold a conference in Utah — a state long known for investment fraud.
  • 06/01/12 NYC bank indicted on mortgage fraud Source: Seattle Daily Journal of Commerce - Seattle WA A New York bank and 19 ex-employees have been indicted on charges of issuing hundreds of millions of dollars of fraudulent mortgages that were later peddled as promising securities to unwitting investors.
  • 06/01/12 Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein may be last witness... Source: New Kerala Dot Com The CEO of Goldman Sachs Group Inc. Lloyd Blankfein is expected to testify in the insider-trading trial of Indian American ex-Goldman director Rajat Gupta.

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