Many wealthy investors who put their money into the $50 billion Ponzi scheme Bernard Madoff allegedly operated under the guise of a hedge fund may have lost virtually all their…
The New York Stock Exchange referred a record 146 suspected cases of insider trading to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission last year, topping the previous year’s record by five…
It’s a bad time to be a bank with any connection to the alleged $50 billion Ponzi scheme that Bernard Madoff is accused of running, or any other such claimed…
The Troubled Asset Relief Program has only been in effect a few months. But already it is the subject of potential criminal probes, as a special inspector general also announced…
An already-hot practice area apparently is being expanded with the help of a deep-pockets noncorporate client: The feds reportedly are paying top partners at a New York law firm for…
Fired on Friday from her plum position as an associate in the Moscow office of a major London-based law firm, Deidre Dare spent the weekend recuperating.
Trying to warn the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission about an apparent fraud being perpetrated by Bernard Madoff was not only frustrating but potentially dangerous, a whistle-blower reportedly plans to…
More than nine years after 14 lawyers leaped from a well-known New Jersey partnership to Lowenstein Sandler, a trial is nearing over claims that the 260-attorney firm went too far…
More than 30 law firms around the world are representing an estimated 3 million alleged victims of the claimed $50 billion Ponzi scheme that Bernard Madoff is accused of running…
Did U.S. taxpayers help fund nearly $20 billion in Wall Street bonuses at the end of last year while Congress raced to the rescue of embattled companies in the midst…
Sued by private banking clients who contend the Banco Santander SA was grossly negligent in investing their money in an alleged $50 billion Ponzi scheme of which Bernard Madoff is…
In a U.S. District Court decision trumpeted by a press release (PDF) for the winning law firm as “a seismic ruling for the accounting profession,” a federal judge has…
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