Fed Probe Nets Ahold U.S. Unit's Vendors
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Nine vendors have been charged with  creating false account records in a scheme that allowed U.S.  Food Service Inc., a unit of Dutch retailer Ahold N.V.  AHLN.AS, to inflate earnings by more than $800 million,  federal prosecutors said on Thursday.
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SEOUL: South Korean microchip makers said they face a US investigation into a price-fixing conspiracy in which German maker Infineon technologies has already suffered heavy fines.
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Business & money: Criminal investigation into possible fraud and insider trading involves some of world's largest banks
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The Federal Trade Commission said yesterday it is investigating TJX Cos. in connection with a major security breach at the Framingham retailer that potentially exposed millions of customers' credit and debit card data.
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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating about a dozen brokerage firms that may have failed to obtain the best price for stocks traded for customers, a source familiar with the matter said on Monday.
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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.
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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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European and U.S. regulators said Tuesday they have been investigating a possible cartel involving makers of liquid crystal display monitors.
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The London-based oil company acknowledged that federal investigators were looking into suspected trading irregularities in oil and gasoline markets.
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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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Wall Street is reportedly under investigation again for allegedly anti-competitive practices that regulators believe might put small investors at a disadvantage.
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Federal regulators are investigating whether traders at Fidelity Investments improperly steered business to their brothers who work for brokerage firms that execute trades for the mutual fund giant, according to attorneys and others involved in the case.
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The U.S. attorney's office in the District is conducting a criminal investigation related to Allied Capital Corp.'s investment in its single largest holding, a New York small-business lender, Allied said yesterday.
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Federal prosecutors are investigating whether employees of the private security firm Blackwater USA illegally smuggled into Iraq weapons that may have been sold on the black market and ended up in the hands of a U.S.-designated terrorist organization, officials said Friday.
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The U.S. Securities and Exchange  Commission is investigating about a dozen brokerage firms that  may have failed to obtain the best price for stocks traded for  customers, a source familiar with the matter said on Monday.
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Federal prosecutors are looking for  U.S. ties to French bank Societe Generale's  trading  scandal, for example transactions that went through a U.S.  broker, The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday.
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Federal prosecutors on Monday said they  believe they now know how natural gas traders manipulated index  prices by reporting false trades.