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Third Circuit Vacates Grant of Summary Judgment to Pfizer in Securities Class Action
On January 30, 2009, the Third Circuit vacated a district court’s grant of summary judgment to Pfizer, finding that no indicia of potential malfeasance existed that would have put plaintiffs on inquiry notice to trigger the running of the statute of limitations.
The lower court had shortened the class period by more than a year, finding [...]
Securities Docket News Wire for Jan. 30, 2009
Web Watch: Best Blog Posts and Columns For the Week Ending Jan. 30. http://is.gd/hRpK #
Web Watch: Best Blog Posts and Columns For the Week Ending Jan. 30
Here is the weekly summary for Securities Docket’s Web Watch (”This Week’s Best Blog Posts and Columns”):
WRAGE BLOG (Jan. 30, 2009): Bribery’s Broken Windows
If officials face “zero tolerance” for the smallest inappropriate demands, won’t it be more difficult for a culture of corruption to flourish?
CLUSTERSTOCK (Jan. 29, 2009): The Madness of Journalists And The SEC
The [...]
Time to Dust Off the Sept. 2005 Memo to Public Company Employees
Last week’s insider trading settlement between the SEC and a manager at Freescale Semiconductor made it clear that it was time for us to dust off Bruce Carton’s September 13, 2005 memorandum to public company employees. Listen up!
SEC’s Thomsen, Richards, Others to Appear as Witnesses in House Financial Services Committee Hearing Wednesday
Apparently having finally figured out that SEC Inspector General H. David Kotz is not the person they need to talk to now to learn why the SEC missed Bernard Madoff’s alleged $50 billion fraud, the House Financial Services Committee is going to try it again on February 4 with some new witnesses. Reuters reports that [...]
Financial Frauds and Financial Crisis Spur Demand for Forensic Accountants
The economic news continues to be grim but one profession that is now booming is forensic accounting. Financial frauds like the Madoff case and collapses of Wall Street companies have driven demand for forensic accountants in the public and private sector.
Richard Slavin, principal and chair of the Connecticut law firm Cohen and Wolf’s securities group, [...]
PwC’s Ireland Office Named as Defendant in Madoff Case Filed in Miami
The U.S. remains the hub of Madoff litigation and fall-out, but activity in the rest of the world is beginning to heat up, as well.
The Independent in Ireland reports that the Dublin, Ireland office of accounting firm PwC has now been named in a securities class action just filed in the United States in Miami [...]
Securities Docket News Wire for Jan. 29, 2009
Securities class action filed against Triad Guaranty in the US District Court for the Middle District of N. Carolina. http://is.gd/hJ0G #
Santander’s 1.38 Billion Euro Offer to Madoff Victims Pressures Rivals to Match It. http://is.gd/hFex #
JPMorgan pulled $250M out of Madoff in late Fall ‘08 because “consistency of its performance wasn’t any longer credible.” [...]
Netherlands: Appeals Court Sentences Ahold Execs to Suspended Sentences and Fines
On Wednesday, an Amsterdam appeals court sentenced three former executives of Dutch supermarket group Ahold to suspended sentences and fines for financial fraud revealed by the company in 2003. The Ahold fraud is the Netherlands’ biggest corporate accountancy fraud ever, NRC reports, involving the overstatement of profits by almost 1 billion [...]
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