The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has affirmed the dismissal of LSF5 Bond Holdings LLC and Lone Star Fund V (U.S.) L.P.’s $60 million securities fraud claims against Barclays Capital Inc. and Barclays Bank PLC. The court noted that Barclays never represented that the mortgage pass-through certificates…
Joseph P. Collins, a former Mayor Brown partner, has been sentenced to seven years in prison for his role in a $2.45 billion investment fraud scheme involving Refco Inc. He had hoped to obtain a more lenient sentence. In July 2009, a jury found Collins guilty of wire fraud and…
The number of Ponzi scams that fell apart increased by nearly four times in 2009, compared to the year, before resulting in over $16.5 billion in investor losses. This figure comes from the Associated Press, which analyzed Ponzi schemes in all US states. Additional findings from the AP analysis: •…
The Securities and Exchange Commission has filed charges accusing Austin investment adviser Kurt B. Barton and his two firms, Triton Insurance and Triton Financial, of committing Texas securities fraud and raising over $8.4 million from about 90 investors. Former football stars were used as bait to target former NFL players…
The broker who pleaded guilty to one count of securities fraud for selling risky securities to four school districts in Pennsylvania has been sentenced to one year and a day in federal prison. Robert Bradbury, 63, must also pay a $10,000 fine. The Pennsylvania school districts that were the victims…
Denise Voigt Crawford, the Texas securities commissioner and current North American Securities Administrators Association president, says it isn’t evident that the US Securities and Exchange Commission has implemented key reforms to the issues that allowed the agency to fail to detect Bernard Madoff’s $50 billion ponzi scheme for almost 20…
According to commercial insurance consulting firm Advisen, 169 securities lawsuits were filed during 2009’s third quarter-an 11% increase from the 152 complaints that were filed during the previous quarter. 249 securities lawsuits were filed in the 1st quarter. The most common kind of securities lawsuit filed this past quarter was…
Taking the side of investors who are suing Merck for securities fraud, the Obama Administration filed an amicus brief last month arguing that the plaintiffs did not wait too long to file their complaints against the drug manufacturer. use. The painkiller drug was taken off the market in 2004. However,…
JP Morgan Chase has settled Securities and Exchange Commission charges that the securities firm was allegedly involved in an illegal payment scam to get municipal securities business from Jefferson County, Alabama. As part of its settlement with the SEC, JP Morgan Chase agreed to pay penalties of $75 million and…
The US Securities and Exchange Commission says it will investigate allegations that former Ferris, Baker Watts Inc. general counsel Theodore W. Urban did not properly supervise Stephen Glantz. In 2007, Glantz, who was employed by Ferris for almost thee years, pleaded guilty to lying to law enforcement officials and securities…