US Seeks Jail for Man in Advance-Fee Stocks Scam
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U.S. prosecutors said on Wednesday they are asking a judge to jail a former Miami, Florida, man accused of setting up a half-dozen boiler-room financial scams that faked Web sites and government documents.
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A former Montana gubernatorial candidate and investment adviser was sentenced Friday to 10 years in federal prison for his role in a Ponzi scheme authorities say bilked investors out of $6.8 million.
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A Norfolk businessman faces up to ten years in a US jail after pleading guilty to forging the US visa applications of British families.
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An indicted businessman who poured thousands of dollars into the campaigns of Barack Obama and other politicians was jailed Monday after prosecutors disclosed he received $3.5 million from an Iraqi billionaire while claiming to be broke.
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In what appears to be the largest trading fraud ever carried out by a single person, a young trader at French bank Societe Generale is accused of making unauthorized bets on stock markets that cost the bank nearly $7.2 billion but may not have netted him a cent.
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The U.S. intends to seek Jacob AlexanderÂs extradition to face charges stemming from a scheme to backdate stock option grants.
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Last Friday, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC to you and me) announced a warning against an investment scam that has caught several hundred people already.
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A suspected Russian gangster and phisherman, caught red-handed with $200,000 worth of stolen goods and $15,000 cash, has been charged in the US on several counts of identity and credit card fraud.
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Former Canadian and UK media tycoon Conrad Black is charged with fraud by US regulators.
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Bail was set at $1 million Monday for a North Carolina man awaiting sentencing in the nation&#39;s first felony prosecution of illegal distribution of junk e-mail, or spam.
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JÃ©rÃ´me Kerviel, the SociÃ©tÃ© GÃ©nÃ©rale trader accused of losing $7.1 billion in illegal trades, could spend months in a jail while an investigation runs its course.
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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said on Tuesday it has charged the former general counsel of KLA-Tencor Corp  and Juniper Networks Inc  with fraudulently backdating stock options.
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A Scottish businessman challenges moves to extradite him to the US to face charges linked to the collapse of energy giant Enron.
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A fine levied against Bear Stearns for failing to detect fraud in a hedge fund customer has struck fear in the heart of Wall Street.
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The former top lawyer of McAfee Inc. was charged with stock options tampering that muddied the finances of the computer security software maker.
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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said on Thursday that it had charged 38 traders in a multimillion-dollar scheme involving phony finder fees and illegal kickbacks in the "stock loan" industry.
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Feds reel in some big fish on the most elaborate trading scam in years, and it's not over yet.