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18 Dec 2008, 9:04 pm
The title of this post is the title of this Slate commentary  by Harlan  Protass, who uses all the ugly Wall Street news to spotlight the the over-emphasis of loss in how the federal sentencing guidelines deal with white-collar fraud. [read post]
18 Jan 2012, 3:09 pm by Sara Randazzo
A federal judge in New Jersey has dismissed eight of the 12 claims brought against Winston & Strawn by Hollywood heavyweight James Wiatt, who alleges that former firm partner Jonathan Bristol funneled $2 million of Wiatt's money into disgraced financial adviser Kenneth Starr's $33 million fraud scheme. [read post]
2 Nov 2011, 5:27 pm by Sara Randazzo
The trustee responsible for litigating claims for a bankrupt real estate investment company is suing the firm for allegedly creating fraudulent tax and investment structures that continued the scam. [read post]
10 Oct 2009, 5:20 am
The SEC announced that on October 7, 2009 the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota accepted a guilty plea by former Chicago-area hedge fund manager Gregory Bell to one count of wire fraud. [read post]
8 Nov 2011, 5:59 pm by Jordan D. Maglich
The trustee overseeing the liquidation of Bernard Madoff's $50 billion Ponzi scheme continued his efforts to recover assets for the victims in filing two lawsuits seeking over $1 billion from customers of feeder funds that invested through Madoff. [read post]
3 Jul 2019, 5:08 am by Green, Schafle & Gibbs
” There’s a reason why the Ponzi Scheme, invented around the turn of the 20th century, is still doing big business one hundred years later.Investors Are Their Own First (and Often Best) Line of Defense Against Financial FraudBelow are five ways to identify a financial fraud in the making and to stop it from hitting you and your investment account.Check credentials. [read post]
1 Feb 2010, 5:46 am by Keith Griffin
The company has remained on lock down since Nov. 24 after federal prosecutors filed court papers accusing Durham of running a Ponzi scheme. [read post]
16 Mar 2014, 11:00 am by Steven R. Morrison
 The theses, from most negative to most positive, are that (1) law schools are a scam akin to a ponzi scheme, intentionally created by greedy institutions; (2) law schools have recklessly fed off of the often unrealistic aspirations of law students, and with the recession have been revealed for what they are; (3) law schools have negligently failed to keep up with the times, and now offer a staid structure of education that doesn't correllate well with student needs; (4) law schools… [read post]
16 Sep 2011, 2:34 pm by Blank Rome Government Relations
In the year since the passage of Dodd-Frank, House Republicans have launched a number of attacks against the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), calling it wasteful, inefficient, and incompetent and blaming it for problems ranging from the Madoff Ponzi scheme to the 2008 financial crisis. [read post]
28 Aug 2018, 6:27 am by Staff Attorney
  The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has alleged that the Woodbridge operated a billion-dollar Ponzi scheme ensnaring about 8,400 investors. [read post]