Blog
SEC Charges Kenneth Ira Starr
December 22, 2010
The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged Jonathan Star Bristol, attorney for former financial advisor Kenneth Ira Starr, with aiding and abetting Starr’s multi-million dollar fraud by allowing Starr to use Bristol’s attorney trust accounts to mask the misappropriation scheme. Beginning in November 2008 through Starr’s arrest in May 2010, more than $25 million of […]
Read More
Messing With J.R., Take Four
November 24, 2010
Not so fast, J.R. Larry Hagman, who played the rapacious oil tycoon J.R. Ewing in the 1980s hit TV series “Dallas,” recently won $11.6 million in a securities arbitration case against Citigroup. As DealBook reported last month, it was the largest arbitration award an individual investor received this year and the ninth largest award ever, […]
Read More
Aidikoff, Uhl & Bakhtiari Investigates Bank of America Structured Products
October 29, 2010
Aidikoff, Uhl & Bakhtiari launches investigation on behalf of investors that purchased Bank of America structured investments which were represented as protecting principal. The investments the firm is investigating includes: Bank of America (Basket EAGLES) Equity Appreciation Growth Linked Securities Bank of America Return Linked Notes Bank of America CYCLES (Capital Protected Equity Performance Linked […]
Read More
Messing With J.R., the Postscript
October 20, 2010
Many people on Wall Street were surprised when an arbitration panel awarded Larry Hagman, who played the rapacious oil baron J.R. Ewing in the 1980s hit series “Dallas,” won $11.6 million in a securities arbitration case against Citigroup. His broker, Lisa Detanna, was also surprised. She recently sent a letter about the case to hundreds […]
Read More
Federal Judge Accepts SEC Settlment with Citigroup
September 25, 2010
A federal judge said Friday that she would accept the $75 million settlement between the Securities and Exchange Commission and Citigroup over the bank’s failure to adequately disclose its exposure to subprime mortgage debt in 2007, The New York Times’s Edward Wyatt reports from Washington. But Judge Ellen Segal Huvelle of Federal District Court for […]
Read More