Jury: novel bought by company fraudulent
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To writer Laura Albert, her alter ego was a psychological necessity, but to jurors, the fictitious male prostitute JT LeRoy was a fraud. A Manhattan jury decided Friday that Albert had defrauded a production company that bought the movie rights to an autobiographical novel marketed as being based on LeRoy's life.
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Claims 'deceit, negligent misrepresentation' over CRM deal
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French broker Credit Lyonnais Rouse was accused in a London court of dishonestly assisting, or turning a blind eye to, the activities of rogue trader Yasuo Hamanaka, who racked up losses of 2.6 billion dollars at his former employer, Sumitomo Corp.
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The same jury that convicted five men of helping push through Enron Corp.&#39;s late 1999 sham sale of power barges to Merrill Lynch &amp; Co.
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A Houston jury has reached a verdict Wednesday in the conspiracy and fraud trial of six defendants connected to a sham deal to illicitly boost Enron Corp.
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Conrad Black's criminal fraud trial went to the jury on Wednesday after nearly 15 weeks of testimony during which the former media baron and his three co-defendants were called both corporate thieves and victims of a run-amok government prosecution.
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An Australian pleads guilty to fraud after posing as a dispossessed Nigerian to cheat people of their money. Also: eBay penalizes its own con men & hellip;. Microsoft's legal woes not quite over & hellip;. and more.
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&gt;Citigroup Inc. was sued by a group of institutional investors who contend the bank defrauded them in selling $2.4 billion of notes linked to the creditworthiness of Enron Corp.
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Lawyers for Compuware told a jury Wednesday that IBM stole its trade secrets as part of a plan to obliterate the Detroit-based company through unfair competition.
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Insurance brokerage firm Marsh &amp; McLennan (nyse: MMC - news - people ) was charged with fraud and antitrust violations in connection with allegations of bid steering and lucrative payoffs from major insurance firms, alleged New York State Attorney General
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CHICAGO -- Former media mogul Conrad Black was convicted yesterday of swindling the far-flung Hollinger International newspaper empire he once ran out of millions of dollars, becoming the latest in a wave of disgraced corporate executives to face possible prison time for financial fraud.
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A U.S. jury on Monday found a former  Credit Suisse Group  investment banker guilty of  insider trading and conspiracy.
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Adult magazine publisher Penthouse  International Inc. PHSL.PK defrauded investors in a 2003  quarterly financial report by improperly booking $1 million in  revenues, U.S. regulators charged on Monday.
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A federal judge in Massachusetts ruled on Thursday that pharmaceutical companies AstraZeneca, Bristol-Myers Squibb and Schering-Plough Corp. subsidiary Warrick Pharmaceuticals falsely marked up U.S. drug prices at various times through 2003.
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Citigroup Inc. C.N faces a lawsuit  from angry investors who allege they were defrauded in a  "massive scheme of deception" when they bought securities tied  to the credit-worthiness of Enron Corp. ENRNQ.PK.
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Conrad Black and his associates  systematically stole $60 million from the publishing empire  they once ran and then tried to hide what they did, prosecutors  told jurors in final arguments at the former media baron&#39;s  criminal fraud trial on Monday.
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Peter Rabbit won a court battle when judges ruled that a Chinese publisher improperly reproduced drawings from the classic British children's story.