A federal appeals court opinion ordering a new sentence for former Enron chief executive Jeffrey Skilling gives his lawyers another chance to argue for a new trial.
A longtime Pennsylvania senator wielded his power, in part, by pressuring companies to send legal work to certain law firms, including his own, according to testimony yesterday at his federal…
In the latest chapter of a criminal case that ignited public interest with its allegations of sex, lies and steamy text messages between the former Detroit mayor and his ex-top…
A federal appeals court has ordered a new sentence for former Enron chief executive Jeffrey Skilling, convicted for his role in the collapse of the energy company.
At the request of New York University, a New York judge has extended a previous order preventing a $1.5 billion hedge fund and a limited investment partnership, as well as…
For nine years, Harry Markopolos tried to persuade the SEC that Bernard Madoff must be running an investment scam, contending that the strategy he claimed to be using didn’t match…
Lawyers representing clients who lost money investing in Bernard Madoff’s alleged $50 billion Ponzi scheme may wish to take a close look at the newspaper.
In 2006, Kosta Kovachev consented, without admitting wrongdoing, to a $358,146 judgment in a civil Securities and Exchange Commission case. It concerned an alleged timeshare-sales Ponzi scheme involving 10 defendants…
Illinois lawmakers considering impeachment for Gov. Rod Blagojevich have agreed to a request by federal prosecutors to limit the scope of their probe so as not to interfere with the…
An FBI agent turned whistleblower complained to federal authorities shortly after Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens was convicted in October that investigators handling the case withheld and altered evidence, and engaged…
A former broker who reportedly also may have been a former client of the Dreier law firm has been criminally charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud, and allegedly helped…
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