4 Ex-El Paso Natural Gas Traders Charged
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Four former El Paso Corp. natural gas traders have been charged with making false reports used to calculate the index price of natural gas, US Attorney Michael Shelby said Wednesday.
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The state has charged 15 former brokers for Metropolitan Investment Securities Inc. with allegedly making misleading recommendations to thousands of older, unsophisticated investors who were trying to save for retirement.
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Federal indictments were unsealed yesterday accusing five former natural-gas traders at three Houston energy companies of reporting fake trades to industry publications.
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Three former Natwest bankers appeared in court yesterday to fight extradition to the United States, where they are facing fraud charges for a multi-million pound deal involving disgraced US energy company Enron.
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Four former El Paso Corp.  natural gas traders will plead guilty to criminal charges for reporting bogus trade prices to an industry publication and will cooperate with a U.S. government probe, prosecutors said on Wednesday.
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Four former El Paso Corp. employees have agreed to plead guilty to reporting false natural gas trades and will help prosecutors in ongoing investigations.
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The Securities and Exchange Commission said on Thursday it charged a total of 38 traders in a multi-million dollar scheme that involved phony finder fees and illegal kickbacks in the "stock loan" industry.
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LOS ANGELES - A former executive at mortgage lender Countrywide Financial Corp. was charged yesterday with insider trading after he sold stock before the company disclosed negative earning results three years ago, regulators said.
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HOUSTON - Four former El Paso Corp. natural gas traders have been charged with making false reports used to calculate the index price of natural gas, US Attorney Michael Shelby said Wednesday.
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A Colombian arms broker was charged with trying to buy &#36;4 million in grenade launchers, machine guns, other high-powered weapons and munitions for a leftist rebel group and promising 2 tons of cocaine as partial payment.
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SAN DIEGO -- Four major insurance companies paid a broker tens of millions of dollars in hidden kickbacks in exchange for winning contracts with some of the largest US companies, California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi charged yesterday.
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Federal prosecutors on Monday said they  believe they now know how natural gas traders manipulated index  prices by reporting false trades.
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The defendants are accused of helping push through Enron's year-end 1999 sale of interest of barges so the energy company could book a $12 million pretax profit the company needed to meet earnings targets.
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Massachusetts Secretary of State William F. Galvin yesterday charged a unit of Bear Stearns Cos. with engaging in improper trading activities at two collapsed hedge funds, the first action by regulators following the funds' meltdown over the summer.
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Attorney General Thomas F. Reilly sued Lyons Fuel of Arlington for allegedly failing to honor fixed-priced heating oil contracts this winter. Reilly's suit alleges Lyons agreed to sell oil at $1.39 a gallon all winter long to some customers but then charged them $1.73 a gallon. Lyons is the second heating oil dealer Reilly has charged with violating fixed-priced contracts ...
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Five former employees of Dynegy Inc., El Paso Corp. and Reliant Energy Inc. were indicted on US charges of reporting bogus energy trades.
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Two former directors at Putnam Investments have agreed to pay $400,000 each to settle charges that they had engaged in improper trading.