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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Weston man gets 30 months for M hedge fund fraud scheme
WESTON -- A Weston resident and former managing partner and principal of Ridgefield-based hedge fund, New Stream Capital has been sentenced to prison for engaging in a fraud scheme. Bart Gutekunst, 63, was sentenced in New Haven on May 6 by ...
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When .6 Billion Just Isn't Enough
One big reason - to make sure efforts are blocked to close the carried-interest loophole, assess taxes and fees on helicopter-commuting hedge fund managers doing business in New York, or establish a "Robin Hood" transaction tax on the high-frequency ...
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Deutsche Bank Pays .5 Billion Fine for Interest Rate Rigging
“The question remains: does the punishment fit the crime?” writes Angela McClellan of Transparency International. “We think not: why allow a company to settle when they fail to cooperate with the investigation? Also, given the gravity of the situation ...
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