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Fast Company August 2003 Fara Warner |
Qwest Finds Itself On Hold Richard Notebaert is trying to make peace with Qwest's troubled past -- and lead the company into the future. |
The Motley Fool June 6, 2005 Tim Beyers |
Say It Ain't So, Joe Things just don't look good for former Qwest CEO Joe Nacchio. Did Nacchio know Qwest's asset sales were being misclassified as he guided towards higher earnings? Investors, take note. |
InternetNews February 22, 2007 Clint Boulton |
Veritas Dinged For $30M Veritas Software will fork over cash to investors harmed in fraudulent financial schemes. |
InternetNews March 2, 2007 Ed Sutherland |
McAfee Exec.: Not Guilty on Options Charges Former McAfee general counsel Kent Roberts, charged with fraud and lying to SEC, gets $1 million bail. |
InternetNews January 4, 2006 Clint Boulton |
McAfee Settles SEC Score McAfee will pay $50 million to settle Securities and Exchange Commission charges related to the software maker's finances dating back to 2000. |
BusinessWeek November 10, 2003 Elgin & Himelstein |
The Qwest Case Starts To Boil The feds focus on whether former execs pressured suppliers to give them shares |
InternetNews July 21, 2006 Ed Sutherland |
Former Brocade Execs Charged in Stock Scandal Brocade becomes just the latest caught in the stock options mess. Feds say the company fraud cost investors millions. |
Registered Rep. October 13, 2005 John Churchill |
Market-Timer Banned and Fined Theodore Sihpol III, the former broker at Banc of America Securities (BAS) and poster boy for the market-timing scandals, agreed to pay a $200,000 fine and to accept a five-year ban from the securities industry. |
The Motley Fool May 18, 2004 Rich Smith |
Lucent's Cloudy Picture Lucent settles one out of three SEC investigations it's facing. |
InternetNews May 24, 2006 Ed Sutherland |
Sycamore Hit With SEC Probe The Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating networking company Sycamore Networks, the Chelmsford, Mass.-based firm announced. |
CFO January 30, 2004 Tim Reason |
Cheese It, the States! Corporate wrong-doers are finding state cops more aggressive than the feds. |
InternetNews May 31, 2007 Clint Boulton |
SEC Settles Backdating Cases With Mercury, Brocade The Securities and Exchange Commission settled stock-option backdating cases with Mercury Interactive and Brocade Communications Systems totaling $35 million. |
CFO April 1, 2005 Tim Reason |
The Limits of Mercy The cost of cooperating with the SEC is high. The cost of not cooperating is even higher. Faced with financial penalties, career-ending bans, and possible criminal prosecution, more individuals are choosing to fight the SEC. |
CFO April 1, 2003 Kris Frieswick |
Fraud Squad Federal investigators are on a crusade to elevate corporate misdeeds to criminal offenses. |
The Motley Fool September 10, 2004 Alyce Lomax |
Settling for Qwest? Sources say the troubled Baby Bell will settle with the SEC. Should investors celebrate? |
Registered Rep. November 1, 2005 John Churchill |
Market-Timer Banned and Fined Theodore Sihpol III, a former broker at Banc of America Securities (BAS), and poster boy for the market-timing scandals -- and the first target of Spitzer to say no to a plea offer -- has settled with the SEC. |
InternetNews May 17, 2004 Colin C. Haley |
Lucent Settles SEC Complaint The company looks to eliminate distractions in an improving climate for network equipment. |
InternetNews June 30, 2006 Ed Sutherland |
Apple Joins Widening Stock Option Probe Apple has joined a growing list of companies to find themselves involved in a widening probe into controversial practices involving stock option grants. |
Financial Planning September 1, 2008 Andrew Ackerman |
SEC Probes Wachovia The Securities and Exchange Commission enforcement staff has notified Wachovia Bank that they may recommend the SEC file charges against it, as a result of an investigation into alleged anti-competitive bidding practices. |
InternetNews September 21, 2007 David Needle |
Steve Jobs to Testify in Backdating Case Apple CEO Steve Jobs has reportedly been subpoenaed by the Securities and Exchange Commission to testify in a stock-options back-dating case against Apple's former general counsel, Nancy Heinen. |
InternetNews December 15, 2004 Tim Gray |
Time Warner Settles Fraud Case Time Warner said today that it has agreed to pay $210 million in criminal and civil fines to settle a federal fraud case stemming from allegedly shady advertising deals within its America Online division. |
CFO April 1, 2003 Julia Homer |
They ARE Out to Get You So far, relatively few executives have gone to jail for white-collar crimes. That may be about to change. |
InternetNews April 24, 2007 Michael Hickins |
SEC Charges Former Apple Attorney With Fraud SEC levies fraud charges at Apple's former general counsel and settles with its former CFO in connection with a stock options backdating scandal. |
The Motley Fool June 12, 2007 Tim Beyers |
Quick Take: Thanks, Dick Dick Notebaert did Denver, and Qwest investors, a great service. |
InternetNews January 13, 2006 Clint Boulton |
SEC is Probing IBM Earnings The Securities and Exchange Commission's investigation into IBM's first-quarter 2005 accounting practices is now official. |
CFO October 1, 2002 Alix Nyberg |
Regulation: Pitt and the Pendulum The kinder, gentler SEC Pitt envisioned vanished faster than you can say Arthur Andersen. Can he run a tougher, meaner agency? |
BusinessWeek October 21, 2009 Farzad & Francis |
The SEC's Tough New Offensive on Insider Trading It's using wiretaps, informants, and high-tech software, as well as teaming with key federal prosecutors, to nab wrongdoers fast. |
National Defense November 2011 Piazza & Ayers |
Regulators Flex Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Enforcement Muscles Continuing a trend that started late in the last decade, the Securities and Exchange Commission this year continues to raise the bar on the enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977. |
BusinessWeek June 18, 2007 Dawn Kopecki |
Backdating: Why Penalties Are Puny The SEC considers options violations less serious than other kinds of financial fraud. |
InternetNews January 6, 2004 Colin Haley |
IBM Korea Scandal Prompts U.S. Inquiries The DOJ and SEC are reportedly looking into bribery and bid-rigging allegations against the IT giant's South Korean subsidiary. |
Financial Advisor January 2004 Jay Gould |
Washed Up On The Banks Of Denial The SEC has changed its policies regarding anti-fraud consent injunctions. How should investment advisors react? |
BusinessWeek May 20, 2010 Jesse Westbrook & David Scheer |
How Big a Hit Will Goldman Take? Congress and the public expect the SEC to extract a big fine |
InternetNews February 17, 2005 Jim Wagner |
Qwest Prepares New MCI Bid Qwest will take another run at the long-distance carrier in hopes of displacing Verizon. |
InternetNews April 13, 2004 Colin C. Haley |
Report: SEC to Charge TW Over AOL Ad Deal A probe over the ISP's accounting for $400 million in questionable ad revenue will reportedly culminate in a formal charge for AOL parent Time Warner this summer. |
Registered Rep. February 18, 2009 John Churchill |
UBS Nailed With $780 Million Fine, Admits To Aiding Tax Dodge Clients The U.S. government has taken its pound of flesh from UBS today. According to a Department of Justice press release. |
On Wall Street October 1, 2009 Thomas O. Gorman |
SEC v. Bank of America: Where to Go From Here? The SEC thought it had completed an investigation, brought an enforcement action and then settled it. |
InternetNews November 17, 2006 Roy Mark |
HP Spy Probe Gets an Upgrade SEC joins others investigating HP's role in boardroom leaks scandal. |
Investment Advisor November 2007 Thomas D. Giachetti |
Confusion and Misinformation Experience has shown us that the presence of hedge clauses will not guarantee that a client will not bring a cause of action against the advisor. When it comes to hedge clauses, specificity is the order of the day. |
InternetNews March 16, 2005 Jim Wagner |
Qwest Readies New Bid For MCI Qwest's chairman says its bid will demonstrate its commitment to winning MCI... Verizon faces pressure to raise its own MCI Bid. |
On Wall Street July 1, 2009 Mark Astarita |
The SEC's "Feel Good" Committee The Securities and Exchange Commission announces the formation of an Investor Advisory Committee, which it says will give investors a greater voice in its work. |
InternetNews May 23, 2007 David Needle |
HP Settles With SEC Over Boardroom Drama The Securities and Exchange Commission said HP should have reported reasons for board member's resignation. |
National Defense September 2011 McGrath et al. |
New Rules Give Incentives to Whistleblowers As more than 1,500 letters to the SEC during the notice and comment period confirm, the Dodd-Frank whistleblower requirements are complex and the program is controversial. |
InternetNews February 28, 2006 Roy Mark |
Feds Bust $50M Online Ponzi Scheme A North Carolina woman and her two companies settled federal charges that she operated a classic Ponzi scheme that generated $50 million on her paid "autosurf" Web site. |
The Motley Fool May 4, 2004 Phil Wohl |
Qwest Off Course The struggling local telco has strayed from roots. |
Knowledge@Wharton January 29, 2003 |
Lawyers and Accountants Can Expect Curbs and Compromises in New SEC Rules Recent rules adopted by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to curb the kind of legal and accounting shenanigans that toppled companies like Enron and Arthur Andersen are not as strong as the SEC first indicated they might be. But do they still have enough teeth to work? |
Registered Rep. December 1, 2004 Karen F. Donovan |
Raymond James Fights a Lonely Battle with the SEC After nearly two years of negotiations, the agency charged Raymond James Financial Services with civil fraud in connection with the conduct of a rogue broker who worked off-site as an independent rep in Cranston, R.I. |
Registered Rep. October 23, 2007 David A. Geracioti |
If Allegations Prove True, File This Under: Stupid Broker The SEC has filed a complaint against a former LPL rep and branch manager, who, the SEC says, had been engaging in one of the oldest broker tricks in the book: stealing his clients money. |
Registered Rep. December 16, 2005 Halah Touryalai |
Former Pru Broker Penalized for Abusive Trading Three years after the SEC charged five Boston-based Prudential Securities brokers for abusive mutual fund trading, one of the accused is being temporarily barred from association with any broker/dealer or investment advisor. |
CFO January 1, 2005 David M. Katz |
The Bribery Gap While foreign rivals may make payoffs routinely, U.S. firms face new pressure to root out abuses. |
Investment Advisor October 2009 Melanie Waddell |
SEC Criticized for Madoff Congress chides the SEC for the scathing inspector general report on Bernie Madoff. |