US Hedge Funds Get Bailed Out If Greeks Pass Bailout Referendum
Control frauds cause greater financial losses than all other forms of property crime combined. He recently helped the World Bank develop anti-corruption initiatives and served as an expert for OFHEO in its enforcement action against Fannie Mae's former ...
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CalPERS Crowdfunded 0 Billion Pension Investigation
In September, 2014, the CalPERS announced it would shed its entire $ 4 billion investment in hedge funds as part of an effort to simplify its assets and reduce costs. While CalPERS stated that the decision wasn't based on the performance of the program ...
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Richard Zabel, Bharara's Deputy, Moves to Elliott Management
Mr. Zabel, the deputy United States attorney in Manhattan under Mr. Bharara, is stepping down to become general counsel at Elliott Management, one of Wall Street's biggest hedge funds. The departure, announced by Mr. Bharara in an internal email on ...
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Thoughts from the Frontline - A Week of Unseen Things
Xi is very astutely framing the whole reform process as a crackdown on corruption. I suppose that's what it is, in a way, but now that he has .... Puerto Rico is about the same size as Connecticut but with more palm trees, twice the unemployment rate ...
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Marin fund manager banned from securities business as investors seek payback
And as recently as October 2012 Braun still owed Cadogan Management, a private investment management firm specializing in funds of hedge funds, some $ 637,000. In his suit, Delman alleged that Braun kept investors in the dark as the partnership's losses ...
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Children killed in rebel attack
Rebels fired a barrage of shells at government-held districts in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo today, killing at least 23 people, including eight children, and wounding more than 100, state-run TV said.
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Australian police asked to examine '€26k bribe' to human-traffickers
Australia's prime minister Tony Abbott could face a police investigation into an alleged bribe paid to people smugglers to turn back a boatload of migrants. .... Billionaire hedge fund manager Dan Loeb and Lightyear Capital chairman Don Marron are.
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Consumers Not Following Orders
He thinks millions of Americans losing their jobs and their homes due to the largest control fraud in financial history is fodder for a tongue in cheek harangue, blaming the victims for the crime. .... The Fed has created $ 3.5 trillion out of thin air ...
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Rikers Inquiry Expands to Include Union Chief's Financial Dealings
Also cited are two hedge funds, Platinum Partners and Centurion Credit Management. Centurion was founded by Murray Huberfeld, a financier, and then subsumed by Platinum Partners. Mr. Huberfeld was convicted of fraud in 1993 for arranging for another ...
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Democracy vs Banks
Imposed fines running into billions for corruption and bad practices against such “pillars of society” have not worked so far. ... Meanwhile, the massacre has begun; properties are being repossessed by banks and sold to hedge funds at rock bottom prices.
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Digital Journalism: The Next Generation
There's little effort to examine, for example, the activities of hedge fund managers, Internet billionaires, or other pillars of the new oligarchy. ..... Here, for instance, are some of the titles offered by The Atavist, one of the movement's leaders ...
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This Week In Securities Litigation
... a penny stock company; Mr. Hawk is the CEO of Arctic Enterprises, Inc. and Strategic Rare Earth Metals, Inc. Each was involved in a scheme in which kickbacks were paid to a purported corrupt hedge fund manager who was in fact an undercover agent.
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