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Inside trade probe snares ‘Octopussy’

US Federal authorities widened their crackdown on insider trading, uncovering an alleged network of conspirators with elements of a James Bond movie, including packages of money, throwaway cellphones, a ringmaster nicknamed “Octopussy” and an associate ...

From ROBERT A. GUTH AND AMIR EFRATI, livemint.com,  6 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Wall Street Journal,  James Bond,  Raj Rajaratnam,  Galleon Group,  Preet Bharara

White Collar Lawyerspeak: “We” Are Cooperating

WSJ.com on law and business and the business of law. Some white-collar lawyering in the Madoff case had us scratching our head last night. All along, Bernard Madoff’s lawyers have stated, without elaborating, that “We are fully cooperating with the ...

From AMIR EFRATI, Wall Street Journal,  6 Jan 2009
Related Topics: Federal Bureau of Investigation,  Bernard Madoff,  Securities and Exchange Commission,  Wall Street Journal,  Dow Jones

Investigators Probe Whether Madoff Stashed Money in Offshore Accounts

Where is the money? That’s the question everyone’s been asking since the Madoff scandal erupted on Dec. 11 after the New York money manager was arrested for engineering possibly the largest Ponzi fraud scheme in U.S. history. Madoff allegedly confessed ...

From AMIR EFRATI, Wall Street Journal,  31 Dec 2008
Related Topics: Securities and Exchange Commission

Madoff Trustee Moves to Baker Hostetler

WSJ.com on law and business and the business of law. Irving Picard, who last week was tapped to liquidate the now-infamous Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC, has left Gibbons to join Baker Hostetler, bringing the firm a steady stream of ...

From AMIR EFRATI, Wall Street Journal,  22 Dec 2008
Related Topics: Bernard Madoff,  Wall Street Journal,  Dow Jones,  Digg,  Facebook Inc.

On License Plates, Traffic Cameras and the Constitution

WSJ.com on law and business and the business of law. Two constitutional challenges recently caught our eye. Yesterday one of those challenges was quashed in Ohio, while another is pending in South Carolina. In the S.C. case, Washington-based ...

From AMIR EFRATI, Wall Street Journal,  11 Dec 2008
Related Topics: Wall Street Journal,  Dow Jones

Ebbers Trying to Join the Bush Pardon Party

WSJ.com on law and business and the business of law. Former WorldCom Inc. CEO Bernie Ebbers, who was convicted in 2005 for his role in accounting fraud at the firm, has asked President Bush to commute his 25-year prison sentence. Here’s yesterday’s ...

From AMIR EFRATI, Wall Street Journal,  4 Dec 2008
Related Topics: Marion Jones,  George W. Bush,  Wall Street Journal,  U.S. Department of Justice,  Conrad Black

Pardon After-Party: Clemency for Man Who Maintained Innocence

Last week we told you about the pardon party going on in Washington, where President Bush continued to add to his so-far scant total of pardons, and earlier today we referenced one of the pardons in particular. Let’s continue with the theme, take a ...

From AMIR EFRATI, Wall Street Journal,  1 Dec 2008
Related Topics: George W. Bush,  U.S. Department of Justice,  Federal Bureau of Investigation

Government Throws in the Towel on KPMG

WSJ.com on law and business and the business of law. It’s over. The Justice Department declined to ask the Supreme Court to review the 2nd Circuit’s ruling in U.S. v Stein. That’s the case, once billed by the government as the largest tax-fraud ...

From AMIR EFRATI, Wall Street Journal,  1 Dec 2008
Related Topics: U.S. Department of Justice,  NYSE,  Wall Street Journal,  Dow Jones,  Digg

Brooklyn’s Judge Block Rules Arab Men Wrongly Detained at JFK

It must have been mighty hard being an Arab traveling by plane in the U.S. following the 9/11 terrorist attacks. But in light of 9/11, is ethnicity a valid reason for arresting certain air travelers? No, according to Frederic Block, a federal judge in ...

From AMIR EFRATI, Wall Street Journal,  26 Nov 2008

Singapore Court Fines WSJ for “Scandalizing the Court”

It’s not often the Law Blog finds its sister publication, the Wall Street Journal, embroiled in legal news. But a ruling Tuesday in Singapore (pictured) shows how the tiny island country has become a challenging battleground for western ...

From AMIR EFRATI, Wall Street Journal,  26 Nov 2008
Related Topics: Wall Street Journal,  Lee Hsien Loong,  Chee Soon Juan,  U.S. Democratic Party,  Dow Jones

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