A Harvard Law School graduate is facing federal fraud charges for allegedly stealing $25 million from investors and seeking $70 million more under false pretenses while working as an executive…
Law firms that represented convicted Ponzi schemer R. Allen Stanford are immune from a lawsuit by defrauded investors as a result of Texas law on attorney immunity, a federal appeals…
A Texas lawyer convicted in 2014 of helping a fugitive client with fraudulent stock sales while the man was on the run was sentenced Monday to a 17-year federal prison…
A New York securities law attorney who moved to Florida in 1998 has pleaded guilty to tax evasion concerning $1.5 million the feds say he didn’t pay the government in…
After four days of trial and less than four hours of deliberation, a former real estate partner of Fox Rothschild was convicted of insider trading Friday by a federal jury…
A former general counsel will receive $850,000 as a result of a lawsuit that contended his former company defamed him in a statement that wrongly implied he was replaced as…
The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to review the insider trading conviction of an Illinois man who received confidential information from the brother of a former investment banker.
A civil suit by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission alleges a partner at Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough served as a conduit in a pay-to-play scheme by State Street…
One of Wall Street’s best-known financial institutions has agreed to pay more than $5 billion to settle claims that it sold toxic bonds based on residential mortgages between 2005 and…
A federal judge has tossed aside an effort to force the Securities and Exchange Commission to adopt a rule requiring publicly traded companies to disclose their political contributions.
A partner in the New York office of a major law firm was arrested Thursday, accused in a federal indictment of conspiring with a well-known entrepreneur and former hedge fund…
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