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One year after taking down his entire brokerage firm through a scheme that the SEC labeled as “deliberate, brazen, and ultimately ill-conceived,” former trader David Miller was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison. Miller pleaded guilty in April 2013 to charges of wire fraud and conspiracy to commit wire and securities fraud. via Trader Sentenced to […]
Cuban said he has reached out to [SEC Chair Mary Jo] White via “backdoor channels” for a face-to-face meeting, where he hopes to discuss how his ordeal can inform the SEC’s work. He said the agency measures success by its courtroom wins and losses without assessing whether these legal battles boost investor confidence or improve […]
Their massive Ponzi scheme was an open secret. “You all know what we do here,” Wall Street villain Bernard Madoff told his closest associates during a closed-door meeting in 2005, a witness said Tuesday in the fraud trial of former Madoff office workers. via Madoff informed close associates of Ponzi plans, employee testifies – NY […]
Get caught up with the Securities Docket News Wire for November 19, 2013.
On November 14, 2013, Southern District of New York Judge Shira Scheindlin entered a default judgment order including a damages award of $882.3 million against Longtop Financial Technologies Ltd. and its former CEO, Wai Chau Lin. A copy of the order can be found here. However, as impressive as the size of this award is, the […]
Thousands of underwater homeowners across New York may see some financial relief from the record-setting $13 billion mortgage- bond settlement Tuesday between JPMorgan Chase and federal and state regulators. More than $1 billion in relief will be heading to the Empire State, according to state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman. via JPMorgan to pay NY $1Bn […]