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Republican Sen. Charles Grassley is investigating about 20 instances of suspicious trading by the hedge fund SAC Capital, a spokesman for the senator confirmed Saturday.

Probes by state attorneys general and other government agencies into banks' foreclosure practices carry the risk of fines and other major costs, according to regulatory filings from three of the country's biggest banks.

U.S. authorities are expanding their probes of Wall Street's past mortgage securities deals.

Bernard Madoff was apparently convinced that it never even occurred to Securities and Exchange Commission staff he was running a Ponzi scheme, despite the agency's numerous probes of his business.

Shares of rating agency Moody's Corp. fell Thursday as government agencies began looking into credit rating companies' actions during the financial crisis.

The watchdog of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has found the agency consistently mishandled its five investigations of Bernard Madoff's business, despite ample complaints over 16 years about multibillion-dollar fraud.

The watchdog of the Securities and Exchange Commission has found the agency consistently mishandled its five investigations of Bernard Madoff's business, despite ample complaints over 16 years about the multibillion-dollar fraud.

The Obama administration launched probes of hundreds of businesses as part of its strategy to focus immigration enforcement on the employers who hire illegal workers.

Cornell University officials are investigating the theft of a school computer that may have compromised the personal information of thousands of current and former students, faculty and staff.

Sen. Charles Grassley is investigating a former Army surgeon who the Army alleges forged signatures and fabricated data in a study touting the benefits of an implant from Medtronic.