Texas tycoon R. Allen Stanford, whose financial empire once spanned the Americas, was convicted Tuesday on all but one of the 14 counts he faced for allegedly bilking investors out of more than $7 billion in massive Ponzi schemes he operated for 20 years. Jurors reached their verdicts against Stanford during their fourth day of […]
Former Sherman Oaks money manager Bruce Fred Friedman has died in French custody while awaiting extradition to Los Angeles on charges related to an alleged $228-million investment scam. An official at the US Embassy in Paris confirmed Friedman’s death Monday but declined to say when or how he died. Friedman, 62, had been in a […]
Jon Latorella, 48, of Marblehead, the former chief executive officer of LocatePlus, was charged along with former LocatePlus Chief Financial Officer James Fields of Brookline with setting up sham corporations that they then claimed to be customers of their business, a Cummings Center-based information broker. Federal prosecutors say the fictitious companies, including one that was […]
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that a federal judge has ordered the former CEO of Brookstreet Securities Corp. to pay a maximum $10 million penalty in a securities fraud case related to the financial crisis. The SEC litigated the case beginning in December 2009, when the agency charged Stanley C. Brooks and Brookstreet […]
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 […]