Ex-natgas traders guilty of price manipulation
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Three former El Paso Corp natural gas  traders were convicted on Thursday of reporting false deals to  manipulate gas prices from 2000 to 2002.
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An insurance chief and two of his directors face sentencing after being convicted of defrauding investors.
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Government indicts five former natural gas traders it says used false sales to manipulate prices. HOUSTON  - Federal prosecutors Monday said they believe they now know how natural gas traders manipulated index prices by reporting false trades.
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Former Brocade Communications Systems CEO Gregory Reyes has been sentenced to 21 months in prison and a $15 million fine for fraud related to backdating of the storage networking company&#39;s stock options.Reyes was convicted last August&#160;in the most prominent of many criminal and civil cases in the past two years related to backdating by high-tech companies. Apple, McAfee, Rambus, and scores of other vendors have faced either internal or external probes. Reyes&#39; conviction was the first by the U.S. Department of Justice in a backdating case. Reyes was found guilty on 10 charges including securities fraud, conspiracy and falsifying financial records. He could have faced as much as 20 years in prison.The sentencing order on Wednesday from Judge Charles Breyer of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California has been stayed pending an expected appeal, which has not yet been filed, according to the court.Backdating, which involves changing the date that stock options grants were made to certain employees so they can later get a bigger profit, is not illegal but has to be accounted for properly. Many high-tech companies used the practice during the Internet boom early in this decade to attract prized employees.In the wake of Brocade&#39;s backdating problems, the company restated its results from 1999 to 2004. The scandal also led to charges against Stephanie Jensen, former vice president of human resources, and Michael Byrd, the company&#39;s former CFO and COO.
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A South Korean court found the private equity fund and one of its executives guilty of manipulating stock prices. The executive, Paul Yoo, was sentenced to five years.
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Five former traders were indicted yesterday in Houston on charges of reporting false trades to industry newsletters to manipulate natural gas prices.
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HOUSTON - The last of four former El Paso Corp. natural gas traders charged with making false reports used to calculate the index price of natural gas has pleaded guilty, US Attorney Michael Shelby announced Friday.
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Four former El Paso Corp. EP.N  natural gas traders will plead guilty to criminal charges for  reporting bogus trade prices to an industry publication and  will cooperate with a U.S. government probe, prosecutors said  on Wednesday.
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The last of four former El Paso Corp. natural gas traders charged with making false reports used to calculate the index price of natural gas has pleaded guilty, US Attorney Michael Shelby announced Friday.
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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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The activist fund manager Yoshiaki Murakami, who shook up corporate Japan with demands for greater shareholder returns, was sentenced to two years in jail for insider trading during a controversial takeover battle. The conviction was for trading in shares during a bid for a television broadcaster made by the scandal-ridden Internet company Livedoor. Regulators have been cracking down on corporate wrongdoing after an accounting fraud at Livedoor that led to a sell-off on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. Mr. Murakami was also fined 1.2 billion yen ($10 million). He quickly appealed the ruling, and Japanese news media said he had been released on bail.
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HOUSTON - Four former El Paso Corp. natural gas traders have been charged with making false reports used to calculate the index price of natural gas, US Attorney Michael Shelby said Wednesday.
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A trader in Internet penny stocks was convicted of using confidential information from an F.B.I. agent to profit illegally in the market.
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A jury has convicted four former Merrill Lynch (MER) executives and a former midlevel Enron (ENRNQ) finance executive of conspiracy and fraud for helping push
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A former Goldman Sachs analyst is sentenced to nearly five years in prison for an insider trading plot.
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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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Description: A jury in Houston finds four former Merrill Lynch bankers and a former Enron vice president a guilty of conspiracy and fraud.