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SEC Taps Paulson Hedge Fund for Information
The SEC requests information from Paulson & Co. in connection with probe into subprime fraud.
State Street Settles SEC Subprime Case for $300 Million
State Street Bank agrees to pay more than $300 million to settle SEC charges.
Rating Agencies Off the Hook in Lehman Case
Investors’ suit against Moody’s and Standard and Poor’s dismissed.
SD Video: Interim Update on Subprime Securities Litigation
Is the pendulum now swinging toward defendants in the subprime securities litigation area?
Court Dismisses Securities Lawsuit Against Merrill Lynch, Citing Mortgage Market Dislocation
Case against Merrill Lynch dismissed due to “profound” downturn in the mortgage market.
SEC Charges Reserve Management Co., Others, With Fraud For Disclosures Related to “Breaking the Buck”
The troubles continue to mount for the The Reserve Primary Fund., the money market fund that “broke the buck” on Sept. 16, 2008 and quickly became a defendant in numerous securities class actions. Today, the SEC announced that it has filed an enforcement action charging the entities and individuals who operate The Reserve Primary Fund [...]
SEC Files “Mortgage Meltdown” Cases Against American Home Mortgage Execs
The SEC announced today that it is has charged two former executives at American Home Mortgage Investment Corp. — CEO Michael Strauss and former CFO Stephen Hozie — with accounting fraud and making false and misleading disclosures to conceal the company’s worsening financial condition in early 2007 as the subprime crisis emerged. The SEC alleges [...]
California AG Sues Wells Fargo for $1.5 Billion Over ARS Sales
The state of California sued Wells Fargo yesterday alleging that the bank misled investors about the safety and liquidity of the auction-rate securities that it sold. DealBook reports that the lawsuit seeks $1.5 billion from Wells Fargo.
In a statement yesterday, Attorney General Jerry Brown (pictured) said that “Wells Fargo’s affiliates promised investors auction-rate securities were [...]
Archived Version and Materials Now Available For Today’s Webcast (Mar. 11)
The slides used in today’s webcast (“The Subprime Boomerang: After the Writedowns Comes the Litigation”) are now available and can be obtained here. In addition, the archived version of the webcast is now available here.