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Denver Man Gets Probation In Insider Trading Case

AP | Posted 04.12.2012

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NEW YORK -- A Denver investment adviser credited for his cooperation with prosecutors was sentenced Wednesday to probation for his role in an insider ...

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NY Judge Sentences Denver Trader To Year In Prison

AP | By LARRY NEUMEISTER | Posted 01.12.2012

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NEW YORK -- The Denver owner of a hedge fund was sentenced Wednesday to a year and a day in prison after he admitted making up to $2.5 million by trad...

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Monsanto Under Federal Investigation For Cash Incentives Program

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 08.30.2011

Read More: Federal Investigation, Roundup Ready, Biotechnology, Herbicide, Roundup, Security and Exchange Commission, Genetically Modified, Agriculture, Monsato Profits, Sec, Monsanto, Glyphosate, Green News

WASHINGTON -- Global agribusiness giant Monsanto is under federal investigation for using cash incentives to persuade distributors to use Roundup, the...

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Watchdog: SEC Made 'Irresponsible' Leasing Decision Last Year

AP | By MARCY GORDON | Posted 07.25.2011

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WASHINGTON -- The internal watchdog of the Securities and Exchange Commission has found that the agency made "irresponsible" decisions in leasing a la...

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SEC Accuses Denver-Based Oil And Gas Firm Of Ponzi Scheme

The Denver Post | Kevin Vaughan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ponzi Scheme, St. Anselm Exploration Co., Sec, Security and Exchange Commission, Denver, Denver News

Federal regulators have filed suit against a Denver-based oil and gas exploration company and four of its officials, accusing them of a "Ponzi-like" s...

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Your Tax Dollars Go So Someone Can Watch Porn

Diane Dimond | Posted 05.25.2011

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As many as 33 of the SEC's top management were apparently too busy looking at internet porn sites to notice brewing financial tsunamis like the implosion of the U.S. housing market.

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Who's Responsible for Your Company's Reputation?

Ron Ashkenas | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Goldman Sachs, Sec, Toyota, Ethics, Crisis Management, Reputation, Security and Exchange Commission, Public Relations, Business News

A number of years ago some enterprising deal makers at GE Capital proposed a series of transactions that would provide financing for a chain of funera...

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Lloyd Blankfein 'Regrets' Making Making Leveraged Transactions

Reuters | Janaki Krishnan | Posted 05.25.2011

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MUMBAI (Reuters) -- Goldman Sachs (GS.N) Chief Executive regretted having participated in transactions that brought too much leverage into the world, ...

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Elway Was Paid To Attract Investors To Alleged Ponzi Scheme

Posted 05.25.2011

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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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Two Madoff Victims File Lawsuit Against The SEC

Reuters | Tom Hals | Posted 05.25.2011

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Two victims of Bernard Madoff's Ponzi scheme filed a federal lawsuit against the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday, seeking at leas...

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SEC Charges Top Two Execs From BlackBerry Maker Over Stock Options

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — The co-CEOs and two other executives at BlackBerry maker Research in Motion Ltd. have been charged by the Securities and Exchange C...

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TARP is Welfare; Control It

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 05.25.2011

Taxpayers, who despise the notion of welfare queens, should demand Congress "discredit" and dethrone the kings of Wall Street.

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SEC Halts Alleged $23 Million Ponzi Scheme

Reuters | Posted 05.25.2011

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U.S. securities regulators obtained an emergency court order to stop an alleged Ponzi scheme that collected more than $23 million from thousands of in...

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Tools

Norman Horowitz | Posted 05.25.2011

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Society does not work when it takes for granted the system's corruptibility. Make laws to protect society and expect them to be enforced.

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Jim Cramer: Make Me The Next SEC Chairman

Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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On CNBC this evening, "Mad Money" host Jim Cramer offered Obama a novel option for turning around the US economy: making Jim Cramer his next SEC Chair...

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S.E.C. Chairman: Oversight Failures Fueled Collapse

New York Times | STEPHEN LABATON | Posted 05.25.2011

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The chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, a longtime proponent of deregulation, acknowledged on Friday that failures in a voluntary supe...

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