securities fraud

How just one employee of Goldman Sachs came to represent mortgage-securities fraud has raised questions about the government’s thoroughness in investigating Wall Street.

Luckily I can't afford apple stock or i'd be pissed...that's not right Apple, you should know better. The company has settled a class action lawsuit alleging stock option backdating securities fraud for a total of $20.5-million...

Eric Kolchinsky, the former Moody's Corp. analyst who criticized the company after allegedly being demoted and then suspended for complaining internally about its practices, sued the firm, its credit-ratings unit and chief executive officer for defamation.

Kolchinsky claims that Moody's was falsifying ratings information and committing securities fraud in the process.

Accused of securities fraud in a 78-page complaint, the Wyly brothers say they were victims of bad advice.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission charged the state of New Jersey with securities fraud for failing to tell bond investors it was underfunding its pension funds, the commission said today.

Goldman Sachs has agreed to pay $550 million to the Securities and Exchange Commission over a securities fraud case involving a mortgage-linked security.

Warren E. Buffett became the highest-profile defender of Goldman Sachs as it combats securities fraud charges.

The Securities and Exchange Commission has referred its investigation of Goldman Sachs to the Justice Department for possible criminal prosecution, less than two weeks after filing a civil securities fraud case against the firm, according to a source familiar with the matter.

In a civil suit filed Friday, the S.E.C. accused the investment bank of securities fraud over a deal in which Goldman profited from bets against products it sold to customers.

Disgraced money manager Bernard Madoff's longtime auditor pleaded guilty to securities fraud and other charges Tuesday in a cooperation deal that could leave him behind bars for years.