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November 30, 2009
Indemnification dispute with the insurer won’t affect their businesses, firm insists By Bruce Kelly At the same time that LPL Holdings Inc. and the three broker-dealers it bought from Pacific Life Insurance Co. were filing suit against the insurer, LPL was reaching out to its advisers to reassure them that the dispute wouldn’t affect their […]
November 12, 2009
Scott Rothstein, partner of South Florida law firm Rothstein Rosenfeldt Adler, has found himself at the center of an FBI investigation. The Bureau is alleging that Rothstein may be the linchpin of an investment scam that could top $1 billion. Rothstein, who is out of town at an undisclosed location, is not yet being charged […]
November 4, 2009
Though taxpayer money has thus far kept embattled financial institution CIT Group, Inc. alive, the government is faced with the reality that it has made a bad investment. The company has finally filed for bankruptcy after unsuccessfully attempting to generate capital from the government, and generating capital from individual investors. CIT Group Issues The reality […]
November 2, 2009
CIT’s move will wipe out current holders of its common and preferred stock, likely meaning the U.S. government and taxpayers will lose the $2.3 billion sunk into CIT last year to prop up the ailing company. Goldman Sachs however, will gain $1 billion because of CIT’s bankruptcy, according to a report published Oct. 4 by […]
November 1, 2009
DBSI which went bankrupt last fall, was “doomed to fail,” said Joshua R. Hochberg, an examiner appointed by a bankruptcy court to examine DBSI’s business affairs. But the company’s troubles did not stop founder and president Douglas Swenson and other officers, directors, owners and top employees from giving “significant amounts of money to themselves,” according to […]