Hedge Fund Manager Charged in Fraud
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A local hedge fund manager has been charged with defrauding scores of Maryland residents of millions of dollars after he solicited their money at free lunch seminars and hid losses with fake statements, the state attorney general's office said yesterday.
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NEW YORK -- US government prosecutors filed charges in one of the biggest insider-trading cases on Wall Street since the 1980s, claiming employees at UBS AG , Morgan Stanley , and Bear Stearns Cos. profited from advance knowledge of mergers and stock picks.
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Massachusetts Secretary of State William Galvin on Monday charged Franklin Templeton Investments with fraud, accusing the company of violating a consent order by not admitting to wrongdoing in a settlement of mutual fund trading allegations.
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The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading  Commission said on Wednesday that it charged failed hedge fund  Amaranth Advisors LLC and its former head trader, Brian Hunter,  with trying to manipulate natural gas futures prices.
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Disgraced Democratic fundraiser Norman Hsu was charged Thursday with defrauding investors of more than $60 million through a massive Ponzi scheme and then using some of his profits to make illegal donations to political campaigns.
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NEW YORK, Sept. 25 -- A former hedge fund manager has been charged with criminal insider trading for allegedly profiting from confidential information she had received from Arlington investment firm Friedman Billings Ramsey Group Inc.
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Federal prosecutors are investigating  whether a Bear Stearns Co Inc  fund manager improperly  withdrew his own money from a fund while making rosy forecasts  about the prospect of the portfolio, the Wall Street Journal  reported on Tuesday.
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A New York businessman was indicted on terrorism charges on Friday, accused of transferring $152,000 to fund the purchase of equipment for use in a militant training camp in Afghanistan.
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Black was charged with fraud yesterday by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), accusing him of using the company as, what they termed, his personal piggy bank.
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The founders of Portus Alternative Asset Management were charged with multiple counts of fraud and money laundering, among others.
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The Securities and Exchange  Commission on Thursday filed fraud charges against hedge fund  manager Robert Berlacher and the Lancaster group of hedge  funds, alleging they engaged in an illegal trading scheme  involving at least 10 unregistered securities offerings.
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A hedge fund manager who was among more than a dozen people accused of participating in an insider trading ring on Wall Street pleaded guilty on Tuesday to profiting from inside tips allegedly leaked by a former UBS Securities  executive.
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James G. Marquez, a founder of several Bayou Management hedge funds was sentenced to more than four years in prison for a scheme to defraud investors.
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Prosecutors said Thursday they had charged a former DaimlerChrysler AG manager with breach of trust and falsifying documents for allegedly cheating the carmaker out of 40 million euros ($52 million).
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SAN FRANCISCO -- McAfee's former top lawyer was charged Tuesday with stock options tampering that muddied the finances of the computer security software maker.
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US securities officials charged the disgraced former press baron, Conrad Black and his former deputy, David Radler, with securities fraud in connection with alleged wrongdoing at Hollinger International.
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The US Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday charged brokerage firm Raymond James Financial Inc. (RJF.N: Quote, Profile, Research) with fraud over the misconduct of a former broker in 1999 and 2000.