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Join the Securities Litigation and Enforcement Group on LinkedInEquifax Stock Sales Are the Focus of U.S. Criminal Probe – Bloomberg
The U.S. Justice Department has opened a criminal investigation into whether top officials at Equifax Inc. violated insider trading laws when they sold stock before the company disclosed that it had been hacked, according to people familiar with the investigation. Prosecutors are looking at the stock sales by Equifax Chief Financial Officer John Gamble; President […]
Theresa May abandons plans to scrap fraud office — Telegraph
The Government is preparing to kick off the search for a new director of the Serious Fraud Office (SFO), confirming Theresa May’s plan to scrap the white-collar crime authority has been abandoned. David Green, the incumbent, is due to step down in April after six years in charge. Mrs May had hoped to abolish the SFO […]
SAC trader accused of insider trading claims Bharara got it wrong | New York Post
An ex-trader for billionaire Steve Cohen’s now-defunct hedge fund, who had flipped to cooperate with the feds in an insider-trading case, is now seeking to withdraw his 2013 guilty plea, claiming that former Manhattan US Attorney Bharara didn’t have the smoking-gun evidence against him that he claimed, court papers show. via SAC trader accused of […]
Thinking About the Growth of Third-Party Litigation Financing | The D&O Diary
Third-party litigation funding has its critics and detractors (refer, for example, here and here). The fact is that third-party litigation funding is now well-established and is here to stay. A recent survey by one of the leading funding firms, discussed below, confirms that the acceptance and use of litigation funding is growing rapidly. The more […]