insider trading
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BULLETIN: ‘Bags Of Cash And A Rolex’: KPMG Auditor Charged In Alleged Insider-Trading Scheme Involving Herbalife, Others; SEC Says Tips Went To Auditor’s Golfing Buddy In The Jewelry Business
BULLETIN: (UPDATED 4:44 P.M. EDT U.S.A.) The SEC has gone to federal court in the Central District of California, accusing a former KPMG “lead partner” and auditor of KPMG’s Herbalife account of insider trading by providing nonpublic information on Herbalife and other companies to a golfing buddy. Scott London, 50, of Agoura Hills, Calif., was fired […]
BULLETIN: KPMG Discloses Chicanery In Its ‘Los Angeles Business Unit’; Shares Of Herbalife Temporarily Halted; MLM Firm Says KPMG Told It That KPMG-Employed Auditor Was Engaging In ‘Insider Trading’ Of Herbalife Stock
Shares of MLM company Herbalife were halted this morning after its auditor — KPMG — issued a statement yesterday that it was informed “late last week” that “the partner in charge of KPMG’s audit practice in our Los Angeles business unit was involved in providing non-public client information to a third party, who then used […]
URGENT >> BULLETIN >> MOVING: FDA Chemist Cheng Yi Liang Pleads Guilty In Insider Trading Case; ‘Shocking Abuse Of Trust,’ Feds Say Of Schemer’s Plot To Use Database To Harvest Illegal Profits
>> BULLETIN >> MOVING: Cheng Yi Liang, the FDA chemist accused in March of mining the agency’s database for drug approvals or denials and using the information to make insider trades, has pleaded guilty to securities fraud and failing to disclose illicit profits. Liang, 57, of Gaithersburg, Md., faces a maximum term of 25 years in […]
URGENT >> BULLETIN >> MOVING: Former Major League Baseball All-Star Doug DeCinces Charged With Insider Trading; Attorney, Physical Therapist And Businessman Who Knew Longtime Third Baseman Charged In Same Case
URGENT >> BULLETIN >> MOVING: Former Major League Baseball star Doug DeCinces, who threw out the honorary first pitch last night at a game between the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim and the Minnesota Twins, today was charged with insider trading by the SEC. Also charged in the civil case were attorney Fred Scott Jackson, […]
URGENT >> BULLETIN >> MOVING: Former NASDAQ Managing Director Charged Criminally, Sued Civilly In Insider-Trading Case; Donald L. Johnson Pleads Guilty To Criminal Securities Fraud Amid Allegations He Cherry-Picked Information While Serving As Stock-Exchange Gatekeeper
URGENT >> BULLETIN >> MOVING: A former managing director of the NASDAQ stock exchange has been charged by both the SEC and federal prosecutors in an insider-trading case. Donald L. Johnson, 56, of Ashburn, Va., already has pleaded guilty on the criminal side of things, the Justice Department said. For its part, the SEC said […]
URGENT >> BULLETIN >> MOVING: Raj Rajaratnam Guilty In Insider-Trading Case; Sentence Potentially Could Exceed Madoff’s 150 Years
BULLETIN: Raj Rajaratnam has been found guilty of all 14 counts of conspiracy and securities fraud filed against him in the Galleon Group insider-trading case. The verdict came on the 12th day of jury deliberations. It deals a devastating blow to Rajaratnam, but is a major win for prosecutors. The case was brought by the […]
FDA Chemist Cheng Yi Liang’s Very Bad Day: Busted By The Feds, Sued By The SEC For Trading On Information Lifted From Confidential Government Database
A chemist who works for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has been charged criminally by federal prosecutors, arrested by federal agents in Maryland, sued by the SEC — and will go to bed tonight knowing his son has been arrested in the same case. Cheng Yi Liang, 56, of Gaithersburg, was accused of abusing […]
SEC Charges Rajat K. Gupta, One Of World’s Top Business Consultants, In Insider Trading Case Involving Raj Rajaratnam, One Of America’s Richest Men
In a case apt to plague Wall Street with questions about whether people on Main Street should trust it, the SEC has accused one of the world’s foremost business consultants with providing illegal “insider trading” tips that lined the corporate pockets of one of the richest men in the world. Rajat K. Gupta is accused […]
DEVELOPING STORY: Douglas Ballard, Banker Accused Of Lending Money For Guy Mitchell’s Alleged ‘Private Island In The Bahamas,’ Pleads Guilty; Case Part Of $1 Billion Failure Of Integrity Bank
A Georgia banker accused of lending a now-accused Florida real-estate fraudster money to buy a “private island” in the Caribbean has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit bank fraud and to receive bribes, and to a single count of tax evasion, federal prosecutors said. Douglas Ballard, 40, of Atlanta, formerly was the executive vice president […]
FBI, SEC Nab Pair Using Gmail To Run Insider-Trading Scam; Undercover Agents Responded To Offer To Sell Disney Earnings Report
So, you want to use Google’s free Gmail service to pull off a scam? From this day forward you should not be confident that you’re not already caught. The FBI today announced that it set up a sting to nail two people who were trying to sell the quarterly earnings report of Walt Disney Co. before […]