Ex-FBI Agent Convicted Over Stock Deals
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A former FBI agent and an Internet penny stock adviser were convicted Monday of mining government computers for confidential information they used to manipulate the stock market.
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A federal jury on Tuesday convicted a former businessman of lying about his ties to a terrorist leader, marking the second time Soliman S. Biheiri has been found guilty in a sprawling probe into whether Islamic charities in Northern Virginia were financing terrorist organizations.
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A former Goldman Sachs analyst is sentenced to nearly five years in prison for an insider trading plot.
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HARARE, Zimbabwe -- A former British special forces operative who allegedly led a foiled coup plot in oil-rich Equatorial Guinea was convicted yesterday of trying to buy weapons from Zimbabwe's state arms manufacturer.
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A former secretary at Coca-Cola is convicted of plotting to sell the company's secrets to rival Pepsi.
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A former chief financial officer of  information security company SafeNet Inc was sentenced on  Monday to six months in prison for manipulating employee stock  option grants.
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A former UBS PaineWebber systems administrator was sentenced Wednesday to eight years and one month in prison for attempting to profit by detonating a "logic bomb" program that prosecutors said caused millions of dollars in damage to the brokerage's computer network in 2002.
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Stock picker Anthony Elgindy profited from illegal tips supplied by an FBI agent who told him about probes of companies Elgindy would then sell short while spreading negative information to clients of his online newsletter, a prosecutor said.
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A former U.N. procurement official was convicted in a fraud and corruption scandal on Thursday for helping a friend secure at least $50 million in U.N. contracts.
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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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The former chairman of consumer finance giant Takefuji Corp. was convicted of ordering the wiretapping of the home phone of a journalist who had written articles critical of the company, an official said Wednesday.
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An Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent convicted of taking a $20,000 bribe was sentenced Thursday to more than three years in federal prison.
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A federal judge sentenced former fugitive financier Martin Frankel to more than 16 years in prison for devising a plot to cheat insurance companies out of &#36;200 million to pay for his luxurious lifestyle.
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A former Goldman Sachs associate who was accused of masterminding one of the broadest insider-trading conspiracies in years was sentenced to nearly five years in prison.
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A former UBS PaineWebber   employee was sentenced to eight years in prison on Wednesday  for planting a computer "logic bomb" on company networks and  betting its stock would go down.
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A South Korean court found the private equity fund and one of its executives guilty of manipulating stock prices. The executive, Paul Yoo, was sentenced to five years.
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A former Alaska lawmaker accused of getting thousands of dollars out of a corrections-company consultant in exchange for his help in the Legislature was convicted of bribery Monday.