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Entries in SEC (15)

Wednesday
Feb202013

Twitter a Hot Spot for Securities Fraud

SEC on Guard as Securities Swindlers Take to Twitter

Fox Business

Fraud on sites like Twitter is on the rise, and it’s sending shivers down the backs of executives and investors everywhere.

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Thursday
Feb142013

New Data-Mining Software

SEC launches 'RoboCop' to fight against accounting fraud

The Telegraph

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is launching a computerised tool designed to automatically trigger alerts concerning suspicious accounting at publicly traded companies.

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Tuesday
Oct092012

The Plaintiff's Lawyer

Investors’ billion-dollar fraud fighter

The New York Times

A few days after securing the largest shareholder recovery arising from the financial crisis — $2.43 billion from Bank of America — the plaintiffs’ lawyer Max W. Berger was not taking a victory lap.

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Wednesday
Sep122012

$600 Million Ponzi Scheme; 1 Million Victims

How can one million people be this dumb?

Fox Business

Ponzi scheme news was everywhere by January 2011. Bernie Madoff and R. Allen Stanford were behind bars. Regulators had uncovered so many similar financial frauds it was starting to look like a pandemic ... How is it, then, that beginning in January 2011 an old multilevel marketing hack named Paul Burks of Lexington, N.C., was able to lure one million investors into what regulators now call a $600 million Ponzi scheme?

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Friday
Aug172012

'Secret Cash Cushions'

Oracle settles SEC charges over secret India payments

Reuters

Oracle Corp agreed to pay a $2 million fine to settle U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission charges that an India subsidiary secretly set aside money used to make unauthorized payments to phony vendors in that country.

Read the full article here.