S.E.C. and House Panel Investigate $18 Million Stock Sale by Chairman of Sallie Mae
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The investigation centers on whether Albert L. Lord had inside information about budget cuts for companies participating in the federally guaranteed student loan program.
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U.S. regulators, led by the Securities  and Exchange Commission, are probing how financial firms priced  mortgage securities on their books and whether they should have  told investors earlier about the declining value of those  securities, The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday.
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STAMFORD, Conn. (CP) - The US Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating the operations of a Thomson Financial division that collects information on stock ownership, the company revealed Monday.
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Bear Stearns Cos. , the sixth-largest US securities firm, is examining whether executives in its brokerage unit approved improper mutual fund trades, company records show.
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Democratic lawmakers said yesterday that they had requested copies of correspondence between the White House and Sallie Mae, the student loan company known as the SLM Corporation, after stock sales by the chairman days before the share price fell with the release of President Bushâs budget.
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Federal prosecutors are investigating whether the wife of former Enron Corp.  Chairman Ken Lay illegally sold shares in the company just before it went bankrupt, a lawyer for Lay said Wednesday.
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Sallie Mae said on Wednesday that it plans to sell about $2.5 billion of stock and mandatory convertible securities to help pay off obligations linked to the student loan company's share buyback program.
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The S.E.C. is looking into whether credit ratings agencies improperly inflated their ratings of mortgage-backed securities.
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THE REGION Sapient Corp., a technology consulting company, said the Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating the company's stock options granting practices. Sapient will cooperate fully with the commission, the Cambridge company said in a regulatory filing. Sapient said last month that an internal review of the practices had ended and found no misconduct.
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A US congressional subcommittee is investigating Google Inc.'s $3.1 billion purchase of online advertising company DoubleClick Inc. , the panel's chairman said.
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The investigation seeks to determine whether managers at EADS had inside information when they sold stock in March as EADS shares were near a record high.
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The Securities and Exchange  Commission is investigating how banks, credit rating firms and  lenders valued and disclosed complex mortgage-backed securities  that ultimately led to the subprime crisis, a top agency  enforcer said on Saturday.
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One of the largest private takeovers in history -- the $25.3 billion buyout for college loan giant Sallie Mae -- unraveled yesterday after its buyers balked at the price, citing turmoil in the credit markets and federal legislation to cut subsidies to student lenders.
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Federal prosecutors are investigating whether the wife of former Enron Corp.  Chairman Kenneth Lay illegally sold shares in the company just before it went bankrupt, a lawyer for Lay said on Wednesday.
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Bear Stearns Cos  is being  investigated by Massachusetts securities regulators over  whether the bank improperly traded with two in-house hedge  funds that collapsed last summer, the Wall Street Journal  reported on Friday.
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Student lending company SLM Corp  , or Sallie Mae, said on Wednesday the U.S. Securities  and Exchange Commission is investigating the company's  disclosures in December 2007, before and after executives and  directors traded in its stock.
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Sallie Mae  said on Wednesday  it plans to sell about $2.5 billion of stock and mandatory  convertible securities to help pay off derivatives contracts  that amounted to a bet that its share price would keep  increasing.