In re China North East Petroleum Holdings Ltd. Sec. Litig., a shareholder complaint against China North East Petroleum Holdings Ltd., (NEP), has been dismissed by the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. The court found that the plaintiffs had not sustained economic losses because of the…
This week, at least 11 people were charged over a fraud scam that allowed hundreds of Long Island Rail Road workers to falsely claim that they had disabling injuries in order to collect annual pensions. The scam could cost a federal pension agency over $1 billion. Among the defendants are…
Abraham Moses Fisch, a Texas criminal defense attorney, has been arrested and charged with money laundering, conspiracy to commit money laundering, obstruction of justice, and conspiracy. According to prosecutors, Fisch and Lloyd Glen Williams, who is Houston used car financier, allegedly ran a scam that fooled criminal defendants into thinking…
Boogie Investment Group Inc. has submitted its withdrawal request to the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority. The small broker-dealer is the 20th financial firm that sold Provident Royalties private placements to either leave the brokerage business or announce its intentions to depart. According to Investment News, that’s nearly 40% of independent…
A district court judge has dismissed a securities fraud lawsuit filed by the Employees’ Retirement System of the Government of the Virgin Islands against Morgan Stanley (MS). The investor complaint, submitted in 2009, accused the financial firm of defrauding investors. The pension fund had purchased the notes as part of…
After surrendering to federal authorities today, Rajat Gupta has entered a not guilty plea to the criminal charges against him involving insider trading. Gupta, who was a former Proctor and Gamble and Goldman Sachs director, is accused of multiple counts of securities fraud and one count of conspiracy to commit…
UBS Securities has agreed to pay FINRA a $12 million fine over violations that led to millions of short sale orders of securities being mismarked or entered into the market even though there was no reasonable basis for thinking that they could be delivered or borrowed. FINRA says that UBS…
Citigroup Global Markets Inc. (C) is suing Abdullah and Ghazi Abbar. The Saudi investors have filed a FINRA arbitration claim against the Citigroup unit seeking to recover the $383 million that they say the bank lost their family’s money. The Abbars, who are father and son, are accusing Citigroup Global…
Not long after bowing out of talks over a possible $25 billion dollar settlement between state and federal officials and the country’s largest banks (including Bank of America Corp, Citigroup, and JP Morgan Chase & Co.) over alleged foreclosure abuses, California’s Attorney General’s office has subpoenaed BofA as part of…
Citigroup has consented to pay $285 million to settle a Securities and Exchange Commission complaint accusing the bank of misleading investors in a $1 billion derivatives deal—a collateralized debt obligation called Class V Funding III. It was Citigroup that chose the assets for the portfolio that it then bet against.…