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Obama nominates 2 Senate aides as SEC commissioners
Two senior U.S. Senate aides were nominated by President Obama to join the Securities and Exchange Commission. Kara M. Stein would replace Elisse B. Walter as a Democratic commissioner and Michael S. Piwowar would succeed Troy A. Paredes as a...Tags: U.S. Senate, Democratic Party, Elections, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Tim Johnson
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Goldman Sachs wins even when muzzled by the feds
Almost three years ago, when Goldman Sachs Group Inc. paid $550 million to settle fraud accusations by the Securities and Exchange Commission, one of the claims was that Goldman misled the bond-insurer ACA Financial Guaranty Corp. in a horribly complex...Tags: Prosecution, Ben Bernanke, Elizabeth Warren, Finance, University of Chicago
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Sen. Warren goads Fed, SEC, DOJ to explain no-fault bank deals
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, having chastised bank regulators for failing to put Wall Street giants on trial, is demanding to see any analyses that the U.S. Department of Justice, the Federal Reserve and the Securities and Exchange Commission have conducted...Tags: U.S. Department of Justice, U.S. Department of the Treasury, HSBC Holdings plc, U.S. Congress, Conservation
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Will new SEC hang whistle-blowers out to dry?
The Securities and Exchange Commission is certainly looking all spiffy and new these days. Mary Jo White, the former federal prosecutor and Debevoise & Plimpton law partner, has taken over as chairman. She tapped her longtime deputy at the Southern...Tags: Freedom of Information Act, Bernard Madoff, JPMorgan Chase & Co., The New York Times, Barclays PLC
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Herbalife says KPMG 'concluded it was not independent' as auditor
This post has been corrected. See note at the bottom for details.KPMG has resigned as Herbalife's auditor after the auditing firm fired a senior partner in its Los Angeles office because of an alleged insider-trading scheme. "KPMG stated it had concluded it was not independent because of alleged insider trading in...Tags: Accounting and Auditing, Carl Icahn, Corporate Crime, Fraud, JC Penney Company Inc.
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KPMG fires a senior partner in L.A. for alleged insider trading
KPMG, one of the country's biggest auditing firms, has fired a senior partner in its Los Angeles office for allegedly engaging in an insider-trading scheme. The partner passed confidential client information to someone who then traded stocks in...Tags: Prosecution, Corporate Crime, Fraud, FBI, JC Penney Company Inc.
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Senate confirms former prosecutor Mary Jo White as SEC chairwoman
WASHINGTON -- The Senate on Monday confirmed Mary Jo White to chair the Securities and Exchange Commission, placing a tough former prosecutor in the role as Wall Street's top watchdog. White was confirmed by a unanimous voice vote in the Senate, an...
Tags: Rajat Gupta, Prosecution, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Jerry Moran, Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.
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Obama names the first woman to head the Secret Service
WASHINGTON – President Obama on Tuesday named a high-ranking career employee of the U.S. Secret Service to become its first female director. Julia A. Pierson, a veteran of the agency’s Miami and Orlando, Fla., field offices, serves as...
Tags: U.S. Secret Service, Career and Workplace, Same-Sex Marriage, U.S. Senate, Labor Legislation
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Senate panel approves Obama nominees to head SEC, consumer bureau
WASHINGTON — A Senate committee on Tuesday overwhelmingly approved Mary Jo White's nomination to head the Securities and Exchange Commission, clearing the way for the former federal prosecutor to be confirmed soon as Wall Street's top watchdog....
Tags: Rajat Gupta, U.S. Senate, Sherrod Brown, Republican Party, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
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Mary Jo White's spin at SEC's revolving door
One of the oft-repeated justifications for why Wall Street must be regulated by Wall Streeters is that what goes on there is both so complex and so essential that only those who have been part of it can be trusted to oversee it. This argument is bunk, of...Tags: U.S. Department of Justice, Gene Sperling, JPMorgan Chase & Co., Elections, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
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SEC nominee Mary Jo White promises tough enforcement if confirmed
WASHINGTON -- Former federal prosecutor Mary Jo White, President Obama's nominee to head the Securities and Exchange Commission, promised senators on Tuesday that tougher enforcement would be a high priority if she was confirmed. White, who spent the...
Tags: Rajat Gupta, Bob Menendez, JPMorgan Chase & Co., U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Tim Johnson
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Herbalife battle shows how the game is rigged
What are we to make of the ability of hedge-fund managers and other influential investors to manipulate the market with impunity and make millions of dollars doing it? The question was raised anew on Feb. 16 after news broke that Daniel Loeb of Third...Tags: CNBC (tv network), Securities, Mutual Funds, Crime, Law and Justice, JPMorgan Chase & Co.
May 25, 2013
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May 17, 2013
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Apr 30, 2013
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Mar 26, 2013
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Mar 19, 2013
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Mar 19, 2013
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Mar 12, 2013
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Feb 26, 2013
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