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BNY Mellon pays $14.8m to settle SEC inquiry on interns

BNY Mellon pays .8m to settle SEC inquiry on interns
It also is probing whether investments in Africa by New York hedge fund Och-Ziff Capital Management Group violate the anti-bribery law. Andrew J. Ceresney, director of the SEC's Enforcement Division, said in a statement, “BNY Mellon deserved ...
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Delco man charged in million hacking scheme
Vitaly Korchevsky, 50, of Glen Mills, a former hedge fund manager, was arrested Tuesday at his home. He was scheduled to appear this afternoon before U.S. Magistrate Judge Linda K. Caracappa in federal court in Philadelphia. Prosecutors in Brooklyn ...
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China's searching for stock market scapegoats
He rounded up corrupt officials, flexed muscles in territorial disputes with neighbouring countries, and pushed to reshape the global financial landscape by establishing the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank. With the economy growing at its slowest ...
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Petroleo Brasileiro Petrobras SA (ADR) (PBR) Falls on Settlement Report While ...
If these penalties are confirmed, this would be the largest corporate corruption fine with the U.S. Department of Justice after Siemens AG, which was charged $ 800 million on bribery allegations. According to the Brazilian authorities cited by Reuters ...
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Latest Bill Moyers News

The Growing Trend of 'Anticipatory Bribery'
Hillary and Bill Clinton have made more than $ 25 million for 104 speeches since the start of last year, according to disclosure forms filed with the Federal Election Commission in mid May – of which she delivered 51, earning more than $ 11 million of ...
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WE FUNDED WHAT? The US Government Funded Quack Medicine For Over Two Decades
The two guys you can blame for this are the now retired Iowa Democrat Senator Tom Harkin and left-wing “journalist” Bill Moyers. Harkin helped get “alternative medicine” funded by the National Institutes of Health. Moyers did a documentary series for ...
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125 years of N.C. A&T: University publishes a pictorial history

125 years of N.C. A&T: University publishes a pictorial history
Teresa Jo Styles was a journalism and mass communications professor at A&T for 21 years before she retired in January. Previously, she was a documentary producer for CBS News in New York, where she worked alongside Roger Mudd and Bill Moyers.
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We Are All Greeks Now
They know gas and electricity being turned off because of unpaid bills. They know the crippling weight of debt. They know being sick and unable to afford medical care. They know the state seizing their meager assets, a process known in the United ...
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Turn Left on Main Street
In a recent Washington Post op-ed piece, headlined, “The last thing America needs? A left-wing version of the Tea Party,” the Democratic congressman from Maryland scolds progressives and expresses his worry “about where some of the loudest voices in ...
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The Revolt Against the Ruling Class
“He can't possibly win the nomination,” is the phrase heard most often when Washington insiders mention either Donald Trump or Bernie Sanders. Yet as enthusiasm for the bombastic billionaire and the socialist senior continues to build within each party ...
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Latest Hedge Fund Corruption News

The Morning Risk Report: Impact of New Money Laundering Rules Is Uncertain
New rules applying anti-money laundering requirements to investment advisers will impose additional compliance costs on hedge funds and other money managers, but the level of cost is uncertain because the reach and rigor of the new rules isn't yet clear.
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Donald Trump: Hedge fund workers aren't paying enough in taxes
These hedge fund guys, they move around papers, many of 'em. You know, if the market goes up they're geniuses, [if] the market goes down … they go into a different business, frankly. They're wiped out. They go into a different business,” Mr. Trump ...
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The Poison in Further Devaluation
In a Business Day report of 22/7/15, titled "CBN may fail Hedge fund speculators' betting on Naira devaluation", Sewa Wusa, Head of Research and Development of Sterling Capital observed that "the onus lies on the CBN to devalue the Naira before it is ...
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