Prosecutors investigating Bear fund manager: report
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Federal prosecutors are investigating whether a Bear Stearns Co Inc  fund manager improperly withdrew his own money from a fund while making rosy forecasts about the prospect of the portfolio, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday.
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The accused include a Morgan Stanley compliance official, a UBS research executive and traders for hedge funds and brokerage firms.
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The Securities and Exchange  Commission on Thursday filed fraud charges against hedge fund  manager Robert Berlacher and the Lancaster group of hedge  funds, alleging they engaged in an illegal trading scheme  involving at least 10 unregistered securities offerings.
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Regulators probing the collapse of  fund manager Sentinel said an examination had revealed that  more than $500 million was missing from its accounts, the  Financial Times reported in its online edition on Wednesday.
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The SEC is looking into whether the financial-information provider failed to correct inaccurate data it published regarding a single mutual fund in a timely manner.
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The Ontario Securities Commission warned four mutual fund firms including CI Fund Management Inc. and AGF Funds Inc. they may face enforcement action in a probe of improper trading in the C$475 billion ($368 billion) industry.
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HOUSTON, Texas - Federal authorities are investigating whether former Enron Chairman Ken Lay&#39;s wife acted improperly when she had their family foundation sell large quantities of Enron stock just days before the company&#39;s bankruptcy.
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Federal prosecutors today unsealed criminal charges against more than a dozen people -- including former executives at three of Wall Street's elite investment banks and traders at prominent hedge funds -- for engaging in thousands of improper trades in a pair of wide-ranging schemes.
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A U.S. federal grand jury is investigating an allegation that Texas energy billionaire Dan Duncan violated Russian hunting laws during a 2002 trip, a spokesman for Duncan's lawyer said on Thursday.
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NEW YORK -- US government prosecutors filed charges in one of the biggest insider-trading cases on Wall Street since the 1980s, claiming employees at UBS AG , Morgan Stanley , and Bear Stearns Cos. profited from advance knowledge of mergers and stock picks.
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Federal prosecutors are investigating  whether the wife of former Enron Corp. ENRNQ.PK Chairman Ken  Lay illegally sold shares in the company just before it went  bankrupt, a lawyer for Lay said on Wednesday.
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The U.S. Justice Department has begun a criminal investigation into possible wrongdoing at Riggs Bank, The Washington Post reported on Saturday, citing a letter from the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia to federal bank regulators.
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Federal prosecutors charged a New York  hedge fund manager on Thursday with securities fraud, accusing  him of cheating investors out of millions of dollars by  overstating the fund's value.
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CHICAGO -- The Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating the investment research firm Morningstar Inc. for failing to properly correct inaccurate data it published about a mutual fund, the company disclosed yesterday.
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Barclays Bank Plc  on  Wednesday accused Bear Stearns Co Inc  of using two  hedge funds that collapsed last summer as places to unload  troubled assets.
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GREENWICH, Connecticut  - The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is conducting more than 30 investigations into potential hedge fund manager misconduct in the northeast United States alone, with more in other parts of the country, officials said on Wednesday.
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Jefferies Group Inc. , a New York-based brokerage, is under investigation by the US Securities and Exchange Commission as part of a probe into whether brokers doled out gifts to mutual fund executives to win trading business, people familiar with the matter said.