Wall Street Investigation

Sam Stein

Congress' Wall Street Investigators Will Have Teeth But They Won't Investigate Congress

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 08.21.2009 | Politics


Phil Angelides has a job that millions of Americans who saw their portfolios vanish this past year would love. The former California state treasurer i...

Prosecutors Pass On Major Wall Street Players

Newsweek | Michael Hirsh | Posted 08.09.2009 | Business


Ever heard of Sky Capital? Probably not. The CEO of that rinky-dink Wall Street firm and five of his employees were indicted this week over what the S...

New "Pecora Commission" Stalled In Congress

The Hill | Silla Brush and Jared Allen | Posted 08.01.2009 | Business


Democratic and Republican leaders have yet to nominate a single person to the high-profile commission aimed at investigating the financial crisis, eve...

Nominees Emerge For New "Pecora Commission"

Reuters | Karey Wutkowski | Posted 07.27.2009 | Business


WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A bipartisan panel armed with subpoena power to investigate causes of the Wall Street meltdown is on the brink of being launche...

Pelosi Favors Probe Modeled On Pecora Commission

Bloomberg | Mark Pittman and Laura Litvan | Posted 07.10.2009 | Business


Wall Street may be heading for the deepest investigation of its practices since a congressional panel's probe of abuses following the 1929 stock marke...

NEEDED: BLUE RIBBON FINANCIAL CRIMES PROBE

Danny Schechter | Posted 04.27.2009 | Politics


Danny Schechter

The role of shady, largely unreported, "off shore" institutions is slowly emerging as a component of a larger criminal schemes.