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Life Partners Holdings Inc., a Texas company that sold fractional life-insurance investments to nearly 30,000 people, was found liable for revenue-recognition fraud and several other allegations filed by federal regulators in a civil lawsuit, but the federal jury found for the defense on more sweeping fraud claims involving the company’s underlying business practices, according to […]
Get caught up with the Securities Docket News Wire for February 4, 2014.
Down Under, Australia’s primary securities regulator has begun using its YouTube channel to get the agency’s message out about its decisions in cases such as the high-profile David Jones insider trading inquiry in which it declined to take action. via ASIC Takes to YouTube to Defend Decision Not to Pursue Insider Trading Charges in David […]
A federal bankruptcy judge on Tuesday approved JPMorgan Chase & Co’s $543 million deal to end two private lawsuits stemming from its relationship with convicted Ponzi scheme mastermind Bernard Madoff. via Judge allows JPMorgan to settle Madoff lawsuits for $543M — Reuters
So how big of an audience does a “journalist” have to have to obtain inside information and then share it? Could Charlie Gasparino or Kara Swisher, or Jonathan Erlichman break the news, make it public, then quickly buy/sell stock based on that information? How long a period would they have to wait after breaking said […]