Financial Fraud Law

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Final Four in Financial Fraud Law’s Top 10 of the Year Is Coming Next Week!
Posted on 27 Dec 2013 by Steven A. Meyerowitz

The Financial Fraud Law Blog Top 10 countdown is nearing conclusion. You already have seen our picks for #10 down through #5, which we summarize below. Stay tuned for the final four picks, coming right after the New Year! We wish all of the readers... Read More

#1 in Financial Fraud Law: US Attorney Preet Bharara
Posted on 3 Jan 2014 by Steven A. Meyerowitz

When we here at the Financial Fraud Law Blog think about financial fraud law, it does not take long before we think about the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Preet Bharara. In a little over four years as U.S. Attorney – following... Read More

The Year’s Top 10 in Financial Fraud Law Begins Tomorrow!
Posted on 18 Dec 2013 by Steven A. Meyerowitz

Typically at this time of year, the Financial Fraud Law Blog delivers the Year’s Top 10 in Financial Fraud Law. We are continuing that tradition from our new home at the LexisNexis Legal Newsroom . The countdown begins tomorrow, with #10 in Financial... Read More

A Clue About #8 in Financial Fraud Law for the Year: Look at Bryan Cave’s Next Firm-Wide Leader
Posted on 26 Dec 2013 by Steven A. Meyerowitz

As the Financial Fraud Law Blog continues its countdown of the Top 10 in Financial Fraud Law for the year, we are going to begin with a clue: Bryan Cave. Give up? The clue is relevant to our Top 10 list because the international law firm has just... Read More

‘Maybe Just Whistle’: #7 in Financial Fraud Law for the Year
Posted on 26 Dec 2013 by Steven A. Meyerowitz

“You know you don’t have to act with me, Steve. You don’t have to say anything, and you don’t have to do anything. Not a thing. Oh, maybe just whistle. You know how to whistle, don’t you, Steve? You just put your lips together... Read More

The ‘B’ Word is #5 in Financial Fraud Law for the Year
Posted on 27 Dec 2013 by Steven A. Meyerowitz

Consider these recent financial fraud-related settlements: - SAC Capital Pleads Guilty to Insider Trading and Will Pay $1.8 Billion; - Johnson & Johnson to Pay More than $2.2 Billion to Resolve Criminal and Civil Investigations; - Rabobank... Read More

Still Relevant Five Years Later, He Is #6 in Financial Fraud Law for the Year
Posted on 26 Dec 2013 by Steven A. Meyerowitz

We know what you are thinking. Still? Five years later, he still makes the year’s Top 10 in Financial Fraud Law? How could that be? Here’s how: He orchestrated the largest Ponzi scheme in history, reverberating to this day. Criminal... Read More

9 of the Top 10 in Financial Fraud Law Already Have Been Named – Who or What Will Be #1?
Posted on 2 Jan 2014 by Steven A. Meyerowitz

The Financial Fraud Law Blog already has announced nine of the Top 10 in Financial Fraud Law for the Year. Here’s how the countdown has gone so far: - #10 in Financial Fraud Law for the Year Is…. - #9 in Financial Fraud Law for The... Read More

#10 in Financial Fraud Law for the Year Is….
Posted on 19 Dec 2013 by Steven A. Meyerowitz

So many topics, so many people, so many issues, so many laws, so many rules, so many cases. Is it at all possible to choose the year’s Top 10 in Financial Fraud Law? Well, we here at the Financial Fraud Law Blog are going to make the effort, and... Read More

#2 in Financial Fraud Law: He Was Confirmed, and He Has Confirmed an Aggressive Approach for 2014
Posted on 2 Jan 2014 by Steven A. Meyerowitz

Let’s get this out right at the beginning: #2 in Financial Fraud Law for the year, according to the Financial Fraud Law Blog , is: #2: Richard Cordray, Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. The Consumer Financial Protection... Read More