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Financial Fraud

Shahien Nasiripour

Another House Democrat Backs Away From Loophole In Investor Protection Bill

HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 10.31.2009 | Business

Read More: Financial Fraud, Consumer Advocates, House Democrats, Enron, Investor Protection Bill, Iceland, Maloney Investor Protection Bill, Carolyn Maloney, Rep. Carolyn Maloney, Business News

A leading House Democrat backed away Wednesday from a sweeping proposal that would have watered down a post-Enron reform, permanently exempting small ...

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David Hernandez: Feds Issue Arrest Warrant For Missing Chicago Sports Webio Backer

Huffington Post | Posted 07.18.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Financial Fraud, Chicago Sports Webio Ponzi Scheme, David Hernandez Complaint, Chicago Sports Webio, David Hernandez Ponzi Scheme, Ponzi Scheme, Mike North, Chicago Sports, David Hernandez, David J. Hernandez, Chicago News

Federal prosecutors issued an arrest warrant Wednesday for David Hernandez, the missing financial backer of the online sports radio site Chicago Sport...

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Obama "Looks Forward" On Financial Fraud, Too

http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/ | Posted 06.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Pecora Commission, Abuse of Power, President Obama, Torture, Fraud, Bailout, Financial Fraud, Economy, Obama Pecora Commission, Obama Torture, Politics News

Obama just issued a signing statement to the bill establishing the "Pecora Commission," mandated to investigate the financial meltdown. The statement ...

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Realities of the Economic Crisis

Michael de Portu | Posted 05.21.2009 | Business

Read More: Credit Swaps, Derivative Guarantees, Sheldon Filger, Goldman Sachs, Economy, Enron, Nouriel Roubini, Financial Crisis, Fannie and Freddie, Bernie Madoff, Subprime Mortgage, Merill Lynch, Recession, Financial Fraud, Mortgage Crisis, Business News
Michael de Portu

Financial fraud typically takes a long time to detect and yet, paradoxically, the tell-tale signs are (almost) always in plain sight.

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FBI Director: Financial Fraud Cases Straining Our Ability To Fight Crime

AP | DEVLIN BARRETT | Posted 04.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Financial Fraud, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Fbi, Robert Mueller, Politics News

WASHINGTON — Federal agents and prosecutors are accelerating their probes of some financial fraud cases amid growing public demand for a quicker...

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How To Escape Capture After Committing Financial Fraud

Dealbreaker | Posted 03.22.2009 | Business

Read More: Financial Fraud, Fraud, Allen Stanford, R. Allen Stanford, Federal Authorities Financial Fraud, Sir R. Allen Stanford, Wall Street Fraud, Business News

Disappointed by the alarming dearth of intelligence in the modern criminal mind, and with the eventual goal of providing more interesting and alluring...

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Arthur Nadel, Money Manager, Missing In Florida: UPDATE: ARRESTED BY FBI

Huffington Post | Posted 02.17.2009 | Business

Read More: Financial Fraud, Fraud, Arthur Nadel, Money Manager, Finance, Peg Nadel, Mini Madoff, Arthur Nadel Crook, Arthur Nadel Florida, Arthur Nadel Money Manager, Arthur Nadell, Arthur Nadel Fund Manager, Arthur Nadel Sarasota Fla, Arthur Nadel Sarasota, Business News

UPDATE 1/27 AP reports that Arthur Nadel, a Florida money manager who was reported missing earlier this month, has been arrested by the FBI: A Flor...

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Investigators: Brace For More Madoff Scandals

Politico | EAMON JAVERS | Posted 02.11.2009 | Business

Read More: More Financial Fraud Cases, Financial Fraud, Bernard Madoff, Financial Crisis, Madoff Scandal, Economy, Business News

Barack Obama's economic team, already reeling from the financial meltdown, certainly doesn't need any more headaches. But investigators and Washington...

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Why We Keep Falling For Financial Scams

Wall Street Journal | STEPHEN GREENSPAN | Posted 02.03.2009 | Business

Read More: Financial Fraud, Fraud, Ponzi Scheme, Financial Scheme, Madoff Scandal, Madoff Fraud, Business News

There are few areas where skepticism is more important than how one invests one's life savings. Yet intelligent and educated people, some of them naï...

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