Worried Dick Fuld and Jimmy Cayne will never be charged? Fortunately, we've found some new alleged white collar criminals to bear the brunt of your w...
Daniel Ammann | Posted 11.23.2009 | Books
Marc Rich, the world's most powerful oil trader who had systematically avoided reporters and had given his last interview over twenty years ago, finally opened up about his businesses and his private life.
Huffington Post | Mallika Rao | Posted 11.11.2009 | Business
Bernie Madoff is only one of the white-collar offenders exposed this year for bilking the country out of millions. Whether stealing from dying family...
AP | Posted 10.09.2009 | New York
CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. — A federal judge says a New York businessman accused of orchestrating a $413 million Ponzi scheme has violated conditions o...
Diane Francis | Posted 09.22.2009 | World
UBS will hand over information on the accounts of 4,450 wealthy Americans, the bank has announed. But this should be just the beginning and the next big target should be Singapore.
Richard Aborn | Posted 08.13.2009 | New York
The lesson from this, as if we needed reminding, is that it is vital that we maintain a beefed-up focus on white-collar crime.
AP | Posted 08.09.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — High court nominee Sonia Sotomayor typically handed out tougher prison sentences than her colleagues in the federal courthouse in M...
Karen Weinreb | Posted 07.31.2009 | Business
My life had been turned upside down just a few months before, when my financier husband told me that he was pleading guilty to a charge of wire fraud. Before that, I had been leading a life of affluence that many people would have envied.
Diane Francis | Posted 07.30.2009 | Business
Madoff is more than just a sociopath. Too much of this story doesn't hang together and he was too functional in other aspects of his existence.
HuffingtonPost.com | Matthew Palevsky | Posted 11.06.2009 | Politics
Capitalizing on the collapse of the housing market, a Fair Oaks, California company claimed to provide loan modification services while siphoning mone...
Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 04.11.2009 | Business
Bernie Madoff may have one last scam in him. And this one may be the biggest and most infuriating of all. He may sleaze his way out of rotting away his last days in prison.
Paul Begala | Posted 02.22.2009 | Politics
As President Obama ushers in a new era of good feeling, allow me this potentially discordant note. As we finally stop torturing people, can we please start humiliating sleazeballs?
Diane Francis | Posted 02.09.2009 | Business
The $50-billion fraud, allegedly perpetrated by New York's Bernie Madoff, is a predictable outcome following the collapse of a speculative bubble. Big bubbles attract bigger crooks.
Forbes | Kai Falkenberg | Posted 01.29.2009 | Business
Feb. 9 will be a big day for Samuel Waksal, the former chief executive officer of biotech firm Imclone. That's when he'll be released from federal cus...
Danny Schechter | Posted 12.05.2008 | Business
When Spitzer and his counterparts began investigating large mortgage companies, it became clear that if there was a crime going on, and it was massive and institutional, not just individual.
New York Times | Abha Bhattarai and Nelson D. Schwartz | Posted 07.11.2008 | Business
Samuel Israel III tricked his investors, lied to his lawyers and misled the police. But in the end, he listened to his mother. The fugitive former ma...
AP | Posted 07.10.2008 | Business
The Wall Street Journal and Associated Press report that fugitive hedge fund chief Samuel Israel III, who was suspected of faking his suicide on the d...
New York Post | Perry Chiaramonte, Kaja Whitehouse and Dan Mangan | Posted 06.19.2008 | Business
June 11, 2008 -- A hedge-fund manager due to begin a 20-year prison stint for a $450 million fraud abandoned his SUV on a Hudson River bridge with "Su...
AP | JIM FITZGERALD | Posted 06.18.2008 | Business
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. — A car abandoned on a bridge with the phrase "Suicide is Painless" scrawled in the dust on its hood is registered to a hedge...
businessinsider.com | Lawrence Delevingne | Posted 12.01.2009 | Business