The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced it has charged Andrey C. Hicks of Boston, Mass., and Locust Offshore Management, LLC, his investment advisory firm, with misleading prospective investors about their supposed quantitative hedge fund and diverting investor money to the money manager’s personal bank account. The SEC also announced that Judge Richard Stearns of […]
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that the U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts has charged Andrey C. Hicks of Boston, Mass., in a criminal complaint unsealed on Friday, October 28, 2011. Hicks was charged with committing wire fraud, attempting to commit wire fraud, and aiding and abetting wire fraud, in violation of […]
On October 26, 2011, the Securities and Exchange Commission charged former McKinsey & Co. global head Rajat K. Gupta with insider trading for illegally tipping convicted hedge fund manager Raj Rajaratnam while serving on the boards of Goldman Sachs and Procter & Gamble (P&G). The SEC also filed new insider trading charges against Rajaratnam after […]
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) today charged Citigroup Global Markets Inc. (Citigroup), the principal U.S. broker-dealer subsidiary of Citigroup Inc., with misleading investors about a $1 billion collateralized debt obligation (CDO) called Class V Funding III (Class V III). At a time when the U.S. housing market was showing signs of distress, Citigroup structured […]
The Securities and Exchange Commission accused New York hedge-fund manager Corey Ribotsky and his firm of hiding losses and spending investors’ money on luxuries such as cars and a Rolex watch. Mr. Ribotsky’s firm, NIR Group LLC, invested through so-called PIPE transactions, or private investment in public equity, which often involve deals with small companies […]