Thing One: Scapegoat Snagged: It appears we may have at long last found a patsy for the financial crisis. Kareem Serageldin, former head of structu...

If you work on Wall Street and you observe some illegal shenanigans, make sure you call up the right Financial Fraud Enforcement Task Force. Over t...

WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Sarah N. Lynch and Jonathan Stempel) - JPMorgan Chase & Co said it agreed to pay $153.6 million to settle U.S. Securities and...

We have experienced recent major waves of white-collar crime, and have reason to believe that such crime -- with many devastating consequences -- may well be on the rise.

WASHINGTON -- Goldman Sachs & Co. says one of its units is being investigated by federal regulators over whether it improperly used investment account...

JPMorgan Chase loves using its research department to push its agenda that puts them in the optimist camp. But take a look at their methodology. The scope of losses gets drastically larger if you change a few arbitrary assumptions.

On March 25, 2010, BrokeAndBroker.com published a detailed analysis of Securities and Exchange Commission v. Igor Poteroba, Aleksey Koval and Alexand...

When you steal a lot of money, you go to jail. Obama doesn't just need tough talk for Wall Street, he needs to prosecute the frauds that were committed, and explain them to the American people.

When bankers think they can get away with rampant fraud and get paid very well to do it, they'll do it. Robert Rubin's best defense is that he really isn't all that bright -- he's either an idiot or a criminal.

Banks broke the law and hired other people to break the law for them, scoring big profits without being punished. Is it any wonder that they're still at it?

Wachovia Bank is accused of laundering $380 billion in Mexican drug cartel money, and is expected to emerge with a slap on the wrist thanks to a government policy which protects megabanks from criminal charges.

or Goldman Sachs, it was a relatively small transaction. But for the bank -- and the rest of Wall Street -- the stakes couldn't be higher. Accusation...

Securities fraud charges against Goldman Sachs are just the beginning as federal regulators and investigators comb through the wreckage of a fraud-ind...

Fraud committed against companies by their own employees has surged this year, new data suggest, providing fresh evidence that the recession is fuelli...

More than a dozen Wall Street trading firms systematically cheated their customers of millions of dollars by improperly slicing bits of profit from co...

For two decades, Paul Greenwood and Stephen Walsh looked like Wall Street wizards. Their supposed investment prowess lured hundreds of millions of ...

NEW YORK — Federal authorities brought charges in two major securities fraud investigations Wednesday, saying one scheme fell apart because of p...

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

In the case of Bernard Madoff, the financial bottom line became the exclusive demarcation between genius and unlawful and immoral acts.

For years, investors, rivals and regulators all wondered how Bernard L. Madoff worked his magic. But on Friday, less than 24 hours after this promine...