Ex-Countrywide execs plead guilty to insider trading
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Three former Countrywide Financial Corp.  executives agreed to plead guilty to charges they conducted insider trading in shares of the large U.S. mortgage lender, and each reaped tens of thousands of dollars in illegal profits, federal prosecutors said.
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Monster Worldwide's former general counsel pleaded guilty in a Manhattan courtroom Thursday, another executive caught up in the stock options backdating scandal.
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WASHINGTON - The Securities and Exchange Commission is examining stock sales of the chief executive of Countrywide Financial Corp. , the nation's largest mortgage lender, a person familiar with the matter said yesterday.
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Two midlevel employees of the Zurich American Insurance Company pleaded guilty yesterday to criminal charges related to the rigging of bids that investigators say was organized by the Global Broking unit of Marsh &amp; McLennan.
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Four former El Paso Corp. employees have agreed to plead guilty to reporting false natural gas trades and will help prosecutors in ongoing investigations.
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Countrywide, the nationâs largest mortgage lenders, has been struggling to deal with the troubles in the mortgage industry.
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The Justice Department obtained a guilty plea Tuesday from a former junior executive at Enron who admitted lying to Wall Street credit-rating firms about the company&#39;s worsening cash flow and debt obligations.
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Countrywide Financial systematically led people to high-cost mortgages that were not suited for them, some former employees say.
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Ex-El Paso Corp. employees Donald Guilbault and William Ham have pleaded guilty to making false reports used to calculate the index price of natural gas, the Associated Press reported on Tuesday.
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Two top executives of the Zurich American Insurance company, a unit of Zurich Financial Services, have pleaded guilty to charges in connection with alleged rigged bids being investigated in New York, a company statement said.
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Four sales executives of German  chip maker Infineon Technologies AG IFXGn.DE have agreed to  plead guilty to participating in a conspiracy to fix the prices  of computer memory chips, the U.S. Department of Justice said  on Thursday.
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A former pharmaceutical executive and two of his sons pleaded guilty yesterday to conspiracy charges for engaging in what authorities called a "brazen" scheme to profit more than $2 million from illegal stock tips passed among the family members and their friends.
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Two senior insurance underwriters at  Zurich American Insurance Co. pleaded guilty  on Tuesday to  misdemeanors related to bid-rigging in the insurance market.
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Countrywide Financial Corp.,  the largest U.S. mortgage lender, said on Monday that  foreclosures rose to a five-year high and turmoil in the  subprime market may hurt earnings, and its shares fell.
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A hedge fund manager who was among more than a dozen people accused of participating in an insider trading ring on Wall Street pleaded guilty on Tuesday to profiting from inside tips allegedly leaked by a former UBS Securities  executive.
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NEW YORK, Aug. 28 -- A former Goldman Sachs analyst pleaded guilty Tuesday to conspiracy to commit securities fraud and insider trading, admitting he participated in a scheme that helped earn more than $6.7 million.
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The ex-general counsel at Monster Worldwide Inc.  pleaded guilty on Thursday to criminal charges related to stock options backdating, becoming the latest former U.S. executive ensnared in an options-related case.