Opening statements by the prosecution began today in the trial of one time Bear Stern employees Ralph Cioffi and Matthew Tannin. The former hedge fund managers are the first to be tried in connection with a federal probe into the subprime market collapse. The men are charged with misleading clients who invested into two separate […]
Former AIG CEO Hank Greenberg has agreed to pay the SEC $15 million to settle past accounting issues, as reported by the Wall Street Journal. The settlement addresses allegations related to accounting practices during his tenure at AIG, reflecting ongoing efforts by the SEC to hold corporate leaders accountable for financial misconduct. Additionally, former AIG […]
Two Ohio families and their pastor filed a federal lawsuit in Minneapolis this week accusing some “confusingly intertwined” Twin Cities investment advisers and a dozen business entities of fraud, misrepresentation and other breaches in the handling of their life savings. The eight plaintiffs claimed Trevor Cook, 37, of Burnsville and Gerald Durand, 58, of Lakeville […]
Clients of financial service firms may be able to recover some, or all, of their investment losses in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac preferred stocks. Financial advisors and brokers at firms like Merrill Lynch, Citigroup Smith Barney, Wachovia and AG Edwards pitched preferred stocks in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to over 1 million investors […]
Carlyle Group is being probed by New York prosecutors and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission over whether the world’s second-largest private- equity firm made illegal payments to intermediaries to secure $1.3 billion in investments from the state’s pension fund, according to a person with knowledge of the matter. New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo […]