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MSNBC
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The FBI on Tuesday said it is investigating 14 companies for possible accounting fraud, insider trading or other violations in connection with home loans made to risky borrowers.
Agency officials did not identify the companies under investigation but s..
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CNN
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French prosecutors announced Monday they plan to pursue three charges against the rogue trader who allegedly carried out a $7.2 billion fraud at Societe Generale, and that they will ask a judge to authorize his continued detention. Prosecutors will ask th..
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MSNBC
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French bank Societe Generale said Thursday it has uncovered a $7.14 billion fraud — one of history’s biggest — by a single futures trader who orchestrated a series of bogus transactions.
The fraud destabilized a major bank already exposed to the..
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Washington Post
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Thank you, sweetheart," "Thank you, dear" -- for acquitting him on six of seven felony counts involving bribery and fraud.
"God bless you all," a tearful Jemal told jurors as they filed out of the U.S. District Courthouse on Constitution Avenue NW, in..
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SF Gate
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An internal audit of some $8 billion paid to U.S. and Iraqi contractors found that nearly every transaction failed to comply with federal laws or regulations aimed at preventing fraud, in some cases lacking even basic invoices explaining how the money was..
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BusinessWeek
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Hermitage Capital Management alleges that a massive fraud attempt in Russia, which even included the police, nearly made off with hundreds of millions
Corruption, intimidation, robbery, violent assault, forgery, large-scale fraud. No, not the subject o..
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BBC News
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A fraud trial is set to get under way in Switzerland of six former executives from defunct firm ISL, former marketing partners of world football body Fifa.
The six face possible prison sentences of up to four-and-a-half years if found guilty of charges..
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BusinessWeek
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With the bank's vulnerabilities exposed, technologies for risk and fraud management just got a lot more popular
The investigation into how Jerome Kerviel, Société Générale (SOGN.PA)'s rogue trader, managed to lose $7.2 billion before being caught i..
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BBC News
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Three Italians, including an EU official, have been arrested and held in custody as part of a European Commission corruption probe.
An EU civil servant and an assistant to a European Parliament member were among those under arrest, a spokesman for the..
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Los Angeles Times
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David Stockman was back in the woodshed Monday, this time for allegedly masterminding an investment fraud.
As a youthful White House budget director in 1981, Stockman was famously scolded by President Reagan for disagreeing with his economic policy...
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Globe and Mail
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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has filed charges against four former executives at Nortel Networks Corp., accusing them of engaging in accounting fraud to meet earnings forecasts.
The Ontario Securities Commission, meanwhile, says it will..
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Washington Post
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An Alexandria jury today acquitted two former America Online Inc. executives of conspiracy and securities fraud, bringing a decisive conclusion to a government probe that fell far short of its mark...
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Associated Press
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The former chief executive of Computer Associates International Inc. was sentenced to 12 years in prison and fined $8 million on Thursday in an accounting fraud scandal estimated to have cost investors $400 million at one of the world's largest software..
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