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SEC Widens Probe Into BofA, Merrill Deal

AP | MARCY GORDON | Posted 12.11.2009 | Business

Read More: Robert Khuzami, Bank of America, Bofa-Merrill-Lynch-Bonuses, Sec, Securities and Exchange Commission, Ken Lewis, Bofa, Business News

WASHINGTON — The Securities and Exchange Commission has expanded its probe of Bank of America to include the bank's possible failure to disclose...

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Are Some Wall Street Firms Too Big To Punish?

McClatchy | Chris Adams | Posted 12.08.2009 | Business

Read More: Section 9(C), Kv Pharmaceuticals, Bank of America, Too Big to Punish, Financial Reform, Financial Crisis, Regulation, Aig, Sec, Too Big to Fail, Citigroup, Business News

WASHINGTON -- Forget too big to fail. In the eyes of federal regulators, many Wall Street firms are too big to punish. During the past three years, s...

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SEC Charges Three Ex-New Century Execs With Misleading Investors About Subprime Crisis

AP | MARCY GORDON | Posted 12.07.2009 | Business

Read More: Subprime Mortgage Fraud, Patti Dodge, New Century, Brad Morice, New Century Fraud, Sec, Securities Exchange Commission, Brad Kenneally, Business News

WASHINGTON — Federal regulators on Monday accused three former top executives of collapsed mortgage lender New Century Financial Corp. of fraud,...

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Overrated? The SEC, Of Course

Stu Kreisman | Posted 12.07.2009 | Sports

Everybody's pick to win it all, Florida, lost to Alabama, exposing Florida for what it is:a good to mediocre team at best. The same can be said for the entire SEC, the most overrated and over-hyped conference in the nation.

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Tim Tebow Crying: Loss Brings TEARS To Florida Quarterback's Eyes (VIDEO)

Posted 12.05.2009 | Sports

Read More: Tim Tebow Crying Video, Tim Tebow Tears in His Eyes, Tim Tebow Cries, Alabama Crimson Tide, Florida Gators, Tim Tebow Crying, Sec, Tim Tebow, College Football, Tim Tebow Tears, Sports News

The 32-13 Alabama victory over Florida in the SEC Championship game was emotional for Gator Nation, but perhaps no one took it harder on the field tha...

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SEC Championship Game 2009: Florida Vs. Alabama

AP | PAUL NEWBERRY | Posted 12.05.2009 | Sports

Read More: Sec, SEC Championship Game 2009, SEC Title Game, Alabama Football, Alabama Crimson Tide, Alabama Florida, Florida Football, Florida Gators, College Football, SEC Championship Game, Tide Gators, Gators vs Tide, Florida vs Alabama, Sports News

ATLANTA — Back in those dog days of August, when the players were just reporting for two-a-days and no school is beyond dreaming of a title, thi...

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Maurice Greenberg, AIG Settle: Legal Fees, Memoir Materials, Persian Rug Returned

AP | CANDICE CHOI | Posted 11.25.2009 | Business

Read More: Rug, Howard I Smith, Howard Smith, Sec, Maurice Hank Greenberg, AIG Bailout, Bailout, Persian Rug, Settlement, Hank Greenberg, Cfo, Ceo, Financial Crisis, Benmosche, Maurice Greenberg, China, Business News

NEW YORK — American International Group Inc. has agreed to settle all legal disputes with its former chairman Maurice "Hank" Greenberg, the comp...

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Raj Rajaratnam Denies Insider Trading Allegations, Says Trades Were Based On Analyst's Work

Bloomberg | David Scheer, Joshua Gallu and David Glovin | Posted 11.24.2009 | Business

Read More: Wiretap, Insider Trading, Hedge Fund, Galleon Group, Sec, Raj Rajaratnam, Business News

Attorneys for Galleon Group founder Raj Rajaratnam denied a U.S. regulator's claims he engaged in insider trading, saying he based investments on anal...

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Banks Get Small Win On Accounting Standards

HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 11.19.2009 | Business

Read More: Aba, Fasb, Lynn Turner, Bankers, Facebook, Ed Perlmutter, Banks, Financial Crisis, Sec, Chamber of Commerce, Systemic Risk, Accounting, American Bankers Association, Business News

A House panel approved a provision Thursday that calls for a new oversight body dominated by bank regulators to advise on accounting rules for banks, ...

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John Elway Was Paid To Attract Investors To Alleged Ponzi Scheme

Posted 11.18.2009 | Denver

Read More: Speed of Wealth LLC, John Elway Investors, John Elway Ponzi Scheme, Security and Exchange Commission, Sec, Slideshow, Denver Ponzi Scheme, Elway Ponzi, John Elway Sec, John Elway Ponzi, John Elway, Denver News

Speed of Wealth LLC, the Centennial financial firm that was accused Monday of orchestrating a $30 million Ponzi scheme targeting green investors, had ...

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Banking Sector Fix In Six Steps: Roger Lowenstein

bloomberg.com | Roger Lowenstein | Posted 11.17.2009 | Business

Read More: Standard and Poor, Banking Crisis, Aig, Sec, Ben Bernanke, Banking Industry, Business News

Financial reform seems to be flailing. Legislation has been proposed, but it is complicated and diffuse. Most of the proposed fixes are incremental ch...

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Beazer Homes CEO's Bonus Targeted By SEC

AP | MARK JEWELL | Posted 11.17.2009 | Business

Read More: Maynard Jenkins, Ian Mccarthy, Beazer-Homes, Sec, Wells Notice, Business News

BOSTON — Federal regulators may try to collect bonus money awarded to the top executive of Beazer Homes USA Inc. covering periods when the homeb...

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SEC Accuses Denver Area Firm Of Orchestrating Ponzi Scheme That Victimized Green Investors

AP | Posted 11.17.2009 | Denver

Read More: Ponzi Scheme, Donna McKelvy, Sec, Denver Ponzi Scheme, Securities and Exchange Commission, Wayde McKelvy, Denver News

DENVER — Federal regulators have accused four people and two companies of fraud in an alleged $30 million Ponzi scheme that lured 300 investors ...

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Moneyed Interests Lining Up For Battle Over Accounting Standards

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 11.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: CFA Institute Centre for Financial Market Integrity, Tohmatsu, Council of Institutional Investors, Committee on Capital Markets Regulation, American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, Center for Capital Markets Competitiveness, Economy, Financial Services Roundtable, American Council for Capital Formation, Reform, National Association of Home Builders, Ernst and Young, Accf, Financial Executives International, Jim Turley, Center for Audit Quality, Commercial Mortgage Securities Association, Financial Accounting Standards Advisory Council, National Multi Housing Council, Paul Volcker, Real Estate, Accounting, American Bankers Association, Sec, Aba, Calpers, Fasb, Financial Reform, Investment Company Institute, Institute of Management Accountants, US SEC, National Apartment Association, Grant Thornton Llp, Ed Perlmutter, Kpmg, Recession, Barney Frank, House Financial Services Committee, Deloitte Touche, Council of Federal Home Loan Banks, Perlmutter, Real Estate Roundtable, Banks, Emails, Politics News

In the midst of what was supposed to be a Congressional push for increased financial regulation and accountability, a powerful coalition of moneyed in...

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Why Sen. Dodd's Opposition to the Federal Reserve is Ill-Conceived

Georges Ugeux | Posted 11.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Tarp, John McCain, Congress, Fdic, Hank Paulson, Liquidity, International Monetary Fund, Financial Reform, Senate Banking Committee, Ben Bernake, Federal Reserve, Monetary Policy, Chris Dodd, Democrats, European Central Bank, Frankfurt, Bank for International Settlements, Senate, Forum of Financial Stability, Treasury, Washington, Comptroller of the Currency, Central Banks, Sec, Global-Financial-Markets, Us, Sheila Bair, Republicans, Politics News

Had Senate Banking Committee's Chairman Chris Dodd's proposal been effective before the crisis, where would we be today?

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Jerome O'Hara And George Perez: Ex-Madoff Programmers ARRESTED For Alleged Cover-Up

AP | TOM HAYS | Posted 11.16.2009 | Business

Read More: Madoff Arrests, Jerome O'Hara, Madoff, Madoff Programmers, Jerome Ohara, Maddoff IT Staff, Sec, Madoff Coders, Ex-Madoff Programmers, Bernie Madoff, Madoff Ponzi Scheme, George Perez, Jerome O'hara and George Perez, Business News

NEW YORK — Two former employees for Bernard Madoff programmed an old IBM computer to generate false records that concealed the crooked financier's m...

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Roomy Khan, Galleon Insider Trading Informant, Tipped Off Several Other Hedge Funds, Destroyed Evidence

nytimes.com | REUTERS | Posted 11.13.2009 | Business

Read More: Insider Trading, Raj Rajaratnam, Roomy Khan, Sec, Galleon Group, Galleon Hedge Fund, Securities Fraud, Roomy Khan Plea, Business News

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Roomy Khan, one of several former traders cooperating with the prosecution of the biggest U.S. hedge fund insider trading case, t...

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How Credit Raters Fended Off Oversight From Congress And The SEC

Huffington Post Investigative Fund | Ben Protess and Lagan Sebert | Posted 11.11.2009 | Business

Read More: Christopher Dodd, Paul Kanjorski, Chuck Shumer, Securities and Exchange Commission, Charles Schumer, Regulatory Reform, Derivatives, Floyd Abrams, Financial Crisis, Credit Rating Agencies, Sec, Chris Dodd, Huffington Posts Investigative Fund, Business News

Editor's Note: This is the second of three articles by the Investigative Fund on the credit rating companies. Read the first article here. When the n...

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The Importance of Schedule Strength in Sports

Wayne Winston | Posted 11.11.2009 | Sports

Read More: Pac-10, Sec, Giants, Nba, Cardinals, Acc, Schedule Strength, Dodgers, Nets, Saints, Wizards, Sports News

The goal of my posts will be to show you how simple mathematical concepts can often lead to important insights about the burning sports questions of the day.

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SEC Instant Replay Relies On Old Technology

FanHouse | Posted 11.11.2009 | Sports

Read More: SEC Referees, SEC Blown Calls, SEC Replay Technology, SEC Instant Replay, LSU Tigers, Alabama Crimson Tide, Sec, College Football, Sports News

High definition television has revolutionized the sports viewing experience. What it hasn't revolutionized is the SEC's ability to use high definition...

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Proposals In House Would Curb 'Too Big To Fail' Banks, Firms

Wall Street Journal | DAMIAN PALETTA and MICHAEL R. CRITTENDEN | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Fed, Geithner, Timothy Geithner, Sec, Larry Summers, Too Big to Ail, Lobbying, Bank of America, Lobbyists, Chase, Paulson, Economy, Metlife, Regulation, JP Morgan, Obama, Democrats, Prudential, Recession, Barney Frank, House, Senate, House Financial Services Committee, Henry Paulson, White House, Treasury, Hank Paulson, Kanjorski, JP Morgan Chase, Republicans, Politics News

Democrats are advancing proposals in Congress designed to limit the size and complexity of financial companies so that any collapse wouldn't damage th...

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Absolute Corruption Is the Rule in America

David A. Love | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Treasury Department, Capitalism, Wall Street, Blue Dogs, Health Care Reform, Max Baucus, Bernard Madoff, Joe Lieberman, Health Care, Healthcare, Blue Dog Democrats, Corruption, Citibank, Bank Bailout, Stock Market, Corporations, Banking Crisis, Sec, Corporate Greed, Citigroup, Regulation, Madoff Ponzi Scheme, Ponzi Scheme, Deregulation, New York, Criminal Justice System, Glass-Steagall, Politics News

Often, people will look at a high-profile example of corruption, and conclude that the egregious act is an exception to the rule. In reality, it might be the tip of the iceberg.

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LSU Vs. Alabama: Crimson Tide Beat Tigers 24-15, Win SEC West

AP | JOHN ZENOR | Posted 11.08.2009 | Home

Read More: Sec, College Football, LSU Alabama, Alabama Crimson Tide, LSU Tigers, LSU vs. Alabama, Alabama LSU, Alabama vs. LSU, Alabama Win, Alabama Score, Alabama Beats LSU, Home News

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Julio Jones left defenders grasping at his heels and Alabama's defense was typically immovable. The Crimson Tide is riding th...

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Civil War In Corporate America: Banks Battling The Chamber On Accounting Rules

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 11.06.2009 | Business

Read More: Financial Accounting Standards Board, Barney Frank, Sec, Mark to Market Accounting, Ed Perlmutter, Brad Miller, Business News

Amid the ongoing financial regulation overhaul, the banking industry is hoping to pull off a quiet power grab that has eluded its grasp since the Grea...

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U.S. Mortgage Fraud Remains at Epidemic Levels

Pat Choate | Posted 11.05.2009 | Business

Read More: Sars, Banning, Sec, Accountability, Sub-Prime Mortgages, Fbi, Mortgage Fraud, Business News

Nothing can better send a message to the world that the United States is serious about restoring the integrity of its money industry than by banning from it the prominent people who deceived the nation and the world.

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