Prosecutors say sham barge deal netted $12 million
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Six former executives of Enron Corp. and Merrill Lynch &amp; Co. on Tuesday were accused by a federal prosecutor of disguising a $7 million loan as a sale of energy-producing barges to &quot;help Enron out of a jam.
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The case of 12 men taken away in handcuffs from a Northwest Airlines flight diverted to Amsterdam has been handed over to prosecutors, who have three days to decide whether to charge or release them, police said Thursday.
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First Command Financial Planning Inc., a company that sold high-fee mutual funds to military officers, has agreed to pay &#36;12 million to settle regulators' charges that it used misleading sales material to promote the funds, it was announced Wednesday.
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A 12th person was charged in connection with the thwarted alleged terror plot to blow up US-bound passenger jets two weeks ago, police said.
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A Northern Ireland businessman has assets put at more than Â£2.75m frozen while investigations continue.
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Morgan Stanley  agreed to pay  $12.5 million to resolve charges that it failed to provide  arbitration plaintiffs with e-mails it said were destroyed in  the September 11, 2001 attacks, when in fact it had saved the  e-mails on backup files.
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One of Appalachia's coal-mining giants agreed yesterday to pay $20 million, the largest such fine imposed by the Environmental Protection Agency, after an investigation found more than 4,500 instances in which mine runoff tainted nearby waters.
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Prosecutors dropped charges against a man accused of killing his wife after a daylong excursion on their personal watercraft. He was to be released Monday night.
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The charges against the former chief executive, Sanjay Kumar, were revealed Wednesday after the company agreed to a $225 million settlement.
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U.S. government announces company's agreement to plead guilty, pay $160 million fine.
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The deal struck between federal prosecutors and former ferry Capt. Michael Gansas is final confirmation that they have decided to go after the big fish: the city&#39;s director of ferry operations, Patrick Ryan.
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WASHINGTON - Federal prosecutors have charged three men with allegedly helping funnel millions of dollars to the Palestinian militant group Hamas, which has been blamed for dozens of terrorist attacks in Israel, Attorney General John Ashcroft announced ...
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Enron Corp. , desperate to meet profit targets, "parked" unwanted power generating barges at Merrill Lynch in a sham sale designed to be reversed, a prosecutor said on Tuesday in the first criminal trial of former executives at the fallen energy company.
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UBS agreed to the payments to resolve accusations it steered inappropriate customers into fee-based accounts, the state Attorney Generalâs office said.
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First Command Financial Services, one of the best-known companies marketing financial products to military families, agreed yesterday to pay $12 million to settle accusations that it
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BetonSports pleaded guilty to racketeering charges and agreed to cooperate in a case against the companyâs founder and other defendants.
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By FRANK ELTMAN  CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. - A titanium maker and its owner were charged with illegally storing more than 11 tons of corrosive hazardous waste, creating a mess that a prosecutor compared to a horror movie scene.