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Registered Rep.
March 1, 2008 |
Blotter SEC filed a civil action against five unregistered Florida brokers who were operating a pump-and-dump scheme... Third largest hedge fund fraud ever...   |
Registered Rep.
May 1, 2008 |
Blotter The SEC charged 11 people and three companies for an alleged conspiracy that raked in $64 million from 40,000 investors. |
Registered Rep.
December 4, 2012
Megan Leonhardt |
Blotter: December 2012 A former hedge fund manager for SAC Capital Advisors was arrested and charged with orchestrating a $276 million insider-trading scheme. |
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. |
Investment Advisor
February 2009
Bob Clark |
The Perfect Ponzi While the Madoff debacle has been a disaster for thousands of investors, the timing couldn't be better for independent advisors. |
Registered Rep.
July 5, 2012
Kristen French |
Blotter: July 2012 One of the biggest-ever Ponzi schemes in South Florida was busted in May... The SEC charged Quantek Asset Management, a Miami-based hedge fund advisor with lying to investors... |
InternetNews
August 9, 2006
Roy Mark |
Stock Options Scandal Hits Comverse Federal authorities charge Comverse Technology's former CEO and two others with criminal and civil complaints. |
Registered Rep.
February 20, 2009
Kristen French |
News Roundup: BofA's Lewis Subpoenaed; Ponzi Pileup! Stanford Investigated For Ponzi Scheme; Morgan Still Poaching Brokers; Even Sin Businesses Take A Hit Another banking-chief head may be set to roll... A list of Ponzi schemers... Sin stocks lower... Morgan Stanley poaches brokers... |
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.
November 1, 2006
John Churchill |
Blotter SEC Busts Another Ponzi... Broker Bends for Hedgies... NASD Says Firm Ignored Red Flags... |
Registered Rep.
June 22, 2009
David A. Geracioti |
Madoff Had Help Running His Fraud, Says SEC The SEC today indicted four individuals for helping Bernie Madoff in his colossal Ponzi scheme. One of the individuals was a registered rep and a second was an investment advisor. |
Registered Rep.
June 22, 2009
John Churchill |
Sir Allen Stanford Indicted Allen Stanford, the flamboyant 59-year-old billionaire CEO of the Stanford Group Companies was indicted Friday on charges of conspiracy to commit securities, mail and wire fraud. |
Registered Rep.
April 1, 2006
John Churchill |
Blotter Regulators Collar Bear... Pattern of Abuse... Junk Fax Scalping... Judge Freezes Ponzi Scheme... |
Registered Rep.
January 2, 2013
Megan Leonhardt |
Blotter: January 2013 FINRA slapped a Pennsylvania advisor with a complaint in December after he allegedly forged client signatures to funnel client assets from one account to another, culminating in personal withdrawals of over $250,000. |
Investment Advisor
January 2009
Jeff Joseph |
More Regulation Post-Madoff? The only thing they are certain of is that his alleged Ponzi scheme. |
Investment Advisor
October 2009
Melanie Waddell |
SEC Criticized for Madoff Congress chides the SEC for the scathing inspector general report on Bernie Madoff. |
Registered Rep.
April 1, 2007 |
Blotter Inside Job: The SEC charged 14 people in March in what one SEC official described as the biggest insider-trading scheme... Ponzi Scheming Manager: William Sirls, a former Wachovia branch manager was charged in early March with stealing... |
Registered Rep.
May 1, 2012
Kristen French |
Blotter: May 2012 Ephren W. Taylor II just wanted to write books and hear his wife sing, in a manner of speaking. Problem is he needed other people's money to make that happen, nearly $11 million of other people's money. |
Registered Rep.
June 1, 2012
Kristen French |
Blotter: June 2012 Mark Spangler, Nicholas Louis Geranio, and David Blech have each violated federal securities laws. |
Registered Rep.
April 28, 2010
Bill Singer |
The SEC's Own Report Says that It Missed Tips and Clues in a Giant Ponzi Some have alleged improper political motives in the Stanford case, which the SEC has denied. |
BusinessWeek
March 21, 2005
Amy Borrus |
Wall Street's Dirty Rotten Little Scoundrels The SEC has a new plan to turn up the heat on small-time Wall Street fraudsters. |
InternetNews
October 22, 2004
Colin C. Haley |
Qwest Settles Fraud Charges The voice and data carrier will pay $250 million to end a two-and-a-half year probe. |
Registered Rep.
September 23, 2008 |
SEC Charges Miami Broker Gary Gross Gary Gross has been charged with fraud by the SEC for selling his elderly clients unsuitable investments. |
Registered Rep.
June 24, 2009
John Churchill |
SEC Says Time To Tighten Rules On Money Market Funds After one of the oldest and largest money market funds suffered such severe redemptions that the net asset value of its shares fell below $1, the SEC is proposing structural and regulatory changes for money markets |
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. |
BusinessWeek
July 29, 2010
Jesse Westbrook |
Whistleblowers Get a Raise The SEC will offer up to 30 percent of the money from fines to reward tipsters. |
The Motley Fool
December 15, 2008
Alex Dumortier |
Avoiding the Next $50 Billion Ponzi Scheme The scandal and scope of Bernard Madoff's fraud is a further blow to the financial sector's reputation. |
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. |
Registered Rep.
July 30, 2012
Kristen French |
Blotter: August 2012 Among other actions, in July, the SEC charged former Connecticut resident Jerry S. Williams, a stock promoter, and two companies that he controlled, Monk's Den and First In Awareness, with civil fraud. |
Registered Rep.
March 14, 2012
Diana Britton |
SEC Goes After Venture Capital B/D Over Sale of Facebook Shares The Securities and Exchange Commission has filed charges against New York-based venture capital broker/dealer Felix Investments and the firm's founder Frank Mazzola. |
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? |
Registered Rep.
October 6, 2004
Leitch & Gaffen |
Raymond James Fights the SEC's Fraud Charges The SEC brought fraud charges against the Tampa-based firm, saying the firm had looked the other way when a former broker scammed investors of approximately $44.5 million between 1999 and 2000. |
Registered Rep.
August 29, 2012
Jerry Gleeson |
Blotter: September 2012 A former ESPN commentator and college football Hall of Fame coach and his colleague defrauded 97 investors in an $80 million Ponzi scheme, the SEC said. |
Bank Systems & Technology
April 16, 2010
Penny Crosman |
SEC Charges Goldman Sachs With Fraud in Structuring, Marketing of CDOs "The product was new and complex but the deception and conflicts are old and simple," said Robert Khuzami, director of the division of enforcement. |
Registered Rep.
March 21, 2006
Halah Touryalai |
SEC and U.S. Attorney's Office Indict Traders and Executives in `Squawk Box' Scheme The SEC alleges that the fraudulent scheme allowed daytraders to trade based on overheard customer orders. |
The Motley Fool
November 14, 2011
John Reeves |
Wrist Slaps All Around at the SEC The SEC disciplines its employees who were involved in the Madoff case. |
CFO
May 1, 2008
Alix Stuart |
All in the Families The SEC is aiming to sniff out improper relationships, including insider trading, between hedge funds and the companies they invest in. |
On Wall Street
November 1, 2009 |
Marcia Kramer Mayer Marcia Kramer Mayer of NERA Consulting speaks about how the SEC should look to the example set by the IRS, which uses computerized searches to identify investment fraud problems. |
Registered Rep.
August 1, 2011 |
Blotter Undercover Kickback... An Exceptional Sentence... |
Registered Rep.
March 1, 2013
Megan Leonhardt |
Blotter: March 2013 Mark Kolta sued Chase Investment Services, his former employer... A former employee of deceased Friendswood investment advisor Joel David Salinas ran a concurrent Ponzi scheme... |
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. |
Registered Rep.
January 13, 2006
Halah Touryalai |
SEC Displays Enforcement Commitment in Leveling Record Penalty Daniel Calugar, a former Las Vegas stock trader, settled with the SEC regarding charges involving market timing and late trading of mutual funds. The settlement will require him to pay a record $153 million in penalties. |
Finance & Development
March 2010
Monroe et al. |
Perils of Ponzis Regulators need to stop Ponzi schemes before they gain momentum, especially in developing countries. |
Investment Advisor
May 2009
Melanie Waddell |
Danger & Opportunity: The SEC Reformation An exclusive interview with SEC chief Mary Schapiro regarding financial services reforms. |
BusinessWeek
June 3, 2010
Jesse Westbrook |
The SEC's BlackBerry Compromise The agency will give employees BlackBerrys -- but won't demand that they keep them on weekends or after hours |
Investment Advisor
April 1, 2011
Melanie Waddell |
GOP's End Game in Nixing SEC Funds: Stopping Dodd-Frank Republicans' rehashing of supposed failures at the SEC is 'counter-productive,' says former Chairman Harvey Pitt |
BusinessWeek
December 27, 2004
Emily Thornton |
Hedge Funds Find An Escape Hatch The loophole: Locked-up funds don't require oversight. That means more risk for investors. |
U.S. Banker
September 2007
Lee Conrad |
Oversight: Hedge Fund Transparency At Issue...Again The Securities & Exchange Commission is attempting to shine a spotlight on the most opaque of investments-hedge funds-by creating a working group in its enforcement division to combat insider trading. |
Investment Advisor
May 2010
Melanie Waddell |
30 for 30 Interviews: Harry Markopolos Independent financial fraud investigator Harry Markopolos identifies strengths and weakness of the SEC. |
Investment Advisor
August 2006
Melanie Waddell |
The Playing Field: Will the SEC Appeal? Hedge fund advisor registration has been an extremely contentious issue. Some feel there will be grave consequences for the SEC and the investing public should the House bill requiring registration be shot down. |
