What's wrong with this picture?First we have the report that a woman in Mississippi has been given a three year jail term for lying on her food stamp application. And yet the chief executives of…
And so it's finally happened, James Murdoch is being investigated by police.The Daily Mail reports that Scotland Yard wants to talk to Murdoch after receiving some "bombshell" emails. …
It's been several years since Bernard Madoff ripped off investors in hte biggest Ponzi scheme ever, thanks to the Security and Exchange Commission which turned a blind eye. Now we have reports t…
Yesterday, I did a blog entry looking at how regulators are investigating whether money was embezzled at the failed trading firm MF Global which has just filed for bankruptcy.Now we have reports tha…
The collapse of trading firm MF Global has rocked world markets. MF Global, which has filed for bankruptcy protection, is the first big victim of the eurozone crisis.But the drama has been taken up …
Rajat K. Gupta, a former director at Goldman Sachs and Procter & Gamble, has been pinged for insider trading. He was feeding secrets to other insider traders like Raj Rajaratnam. The New York Ti…
Koch Industries, the company controlled by Republican mega-funders Charles and David Koch, has been implicated in dozens of criminal acts around the globe over the past three decades.According to Bl…
The inspector general of the Securities and Exchange Commission has asked the Justice Department to see investigate how a former top SEC official benefited financially from Bernard Madoff's Ponz…
Rupert Murdoch's executives are more worried about the FBI and the US Justice Department than Scotland Yard.Reuters reports that emails discussing questionable payments made to police by the New…
The Murdochs are back in the cross hairs with new evidence reported by the Guardian revealing that there has been a widespread cover-up that casts doubt on sworn testimonies from the company's l…