U.S. charges 13 in insider trading, bribery cases
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The U.S. government on Thursday charged 13 people, including employees at major Wall Street banks, with securities fraud, wire fraud, bribery and other charges in what authorities are calling one of the most pervasive insider trading rings in years.
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SAN DIEGO -- Four major insurance companies paid a broker tens of millions of dollars in hidden kickbacks in exchange for winning contracts with some of the largest US companies, California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi charged yesterday.
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Thirteen people have been indicted for drug trafficking, including a man who appears in a DVD &#151; along with NBA star Carmelo Anthony &#151; aimed at scaring residents from telling police about drug dealers, authorities said Wednesday.
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Three men from India were indicted Monday on federal charges of hacking into online brokerage accounts and pumping up stock values to turn a hefty profit for themselves, the Justice Department said.
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As federal regulators have pursued insider trading cases this year, one of the oddities they have spotted is an increase in cases involving husbands and wives.
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Federal prosecutors unsealed indictments yesterday of three Indian nationals who allegedly used stolen passwords to hijack the online brokerage accounts of scores of U.S. investors, a scheme that resulted in more than $2 million in losses, authorities said.
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Fed cracking down on securities manipulation US authorities have charged three Indian nationals for an elaborate pump-and-dump scheme that used hijacked brokerage accounts to manipulate the prices of 14 securities including Sun Microsystems and put options for Google.â¦
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Three executives were indicted on charges of defrauding the federal government of more than $18 million in employment taxes owed on behalf of hundreds of illegal immigrant workers.
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Arrest warrants have been issued for 13 people in connection with the alleged CIA-orchestrated kidnapping of a German citizen in the agency's extraordinary rendition program, a Munich prosecutor said Wednesday.Comment
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TORONTO -- The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday filed civil fraud charges against a former CEO and three other former top executives of Canadian telecom equipment maker Nortel Networks Corp.
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HONG KONG/WASHINGTON  - The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission plans to file civil charges against Dow Jones & Co. Inc.  board member David Li over an insider trading investigation linked to News Corp.'s  $5 billion bid for the media company, the Wall Street Journal reported.
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The United States attorney's office in Manhattan is investigating individual traders on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on suspicion of cheating customers through illegal trading practices.
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Employees of some of Wall Street's top  banks were among more than a dozen people charged on Thursday  in what authorities called one of the most pervasive insider  trading rings since the 1980s, accused of using leaked  information and even blackmail to make millions of dollars.
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The defense contractor charged with bribing convicted former congressman Randy "Duke" Cunningham has subpoenaed 13 House members, including former speaker J. Dennis Hastert, to testify in his federal trial.
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Three people were criminally charged with taking part in a commercial bribery scheme to defraud information technology research company Gartner Inc , U.S. prosecutors said on Friday.
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The Securities and Exchange Commission filed charges today against three former executives of what is now Kmart Holding Corp. and five former and current managers at vendor companies, alleging they conspired
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Former media mogul guilty of four of the 13 charges against him, including fraud and obstruction of justice.