Goldman Sachs received a so-called Wells notice Feb. 24 from the Securities and Exchange Commission relating to disclosures for a late-2006 offering of $1.3 billion in subprime residential mortgage-backed securities, the firm said today in an annual financial report. Wells Fargo said it also got an SEC notice as the government examines whether it properly […]
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (Commission) announced that on February 15, 2012, co-founders of the bankrupt Canopy Financial, Inc., a health care transaction-software company based in Chicago, were sentenced to 15 and 13 years in prison for defrauding investors and clients of more than $93 million. Anthony Banas, Canopy’s chief technology officer, was sentenced […]
US Attorney Anne M Tompkins made the announcement in conjunction with Chris Briese, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Charlotte Division, and Jeannine A Hammett, Special Agent in Charge of the Internal Revenue Service-Criminal Investigation Division (IRS-CI). According to the criminal indictment, the defendants operated “hedge funds” as part of […]
The Securities and Exchange Commission announced that on February 2, 2012, United States District Judge William C. Caldwell of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania entered an order imposing a $2,500,000 civil penalty jointly and severally against defendants Robert Glenn Bard and Vision Specialist Group, LLC. In an earlier order […]
AIJ Investment Advisors Co.’s operations were halted Friday after regulators said the firm allegedly lost “most of’” the ¥183 billion ($2.3 billion) in pension assets it managed. Japanese credit rater Rating & Investment Information Inc. warned in a 2009 newsletter to clients that AIJ had “unnaturally stable returns” despite a down market. Although AIJ wasn’t […]