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Virtual currencies such as bitcoin have grown in popularity. With that popularity it may well have been inevitable that the SEC would bring enforcement actions centered on the new phenomenon, alleging fraud. A new variation of those actions is the predicate...

by Barbara S. Mishkin A new lawsuit filed by the CFPB in a California federal district court alleges that the defendants, a company and its individual owner, are engaged in a nationwide student financial aid scam. In addition to injunctive relief,...

by Barbara S. Mishkin A new lawsuit filed by the CFPB in a California federal district court alleges that the defendants, a company and its individual owner, are engaged in a nationwide student financial aid scam. In addition to injunctive relief,...

The intersection of bankruptcy and forfeiture proceedings can lead to considerable fighting over the assets that were once in the possession and control of the perpetrator. The recent filing of a motion to approve a settlement in the hard fought battle...

Below is a summary of the activity reported for November 2015. The reported stories reflect: 3 guilty pleas or convictions in pending cases; over 77 years of newly imposed sentences for people involved in Ponzi schemes; at least 9 new Ponzi schemes worldwide;...

"Mr. Benjamin, while wearing the cloak of BSO authority, engineered the arrest and incarceration of an innocent citizen. This was done purely for financial gain. This conduct is deplorable — it is unconscionable." - U.S. District Judge...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — (Mealey’s) Lloyds Banking Group plc has agreed to pay a total of $370 million to settle claims with U.S. and British agencies alleging that Lloyds violated various laws by manipulating the London Interbank Offered Rate ...

In the first trial to take place since Bernard Madoff's massive Ponzi scheme shocked the world more than five years ago, five former employees at Madoff's investment firm were convicted by a New York federal jury for their participation in Madoff's...

A Massachusetts grand jury indicted TelexFree co-founders James Merrill and Carlos Wanzeler on multiple fraud charges in what authorities have alleged was a massive Pyramid/Ponzi scheme that may have defrauded victims out of hundreds of millions of dollars...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — (Mealey’s) McGraw Hill Financial Inc. and its subsidiary, Standard & Poor’s Financial Services LLC (S&P Financial), announced today that they will pay a combined $1.5 billion to settle actions brought by the...

Peter Madoff – Bernard Madoff’s brother – has been disbarred. Just about five years to the day after Bernard Madoff’s Ponzi scheme came to light, just about one year to the day after Peter Madoff was sentenced to consecutive...

For every dollar federal prosecutors spent on health care-related fraud and abuse investigations under the Health Care Fraud and Abuse Control (HCFAC) Program and other programs over the last three years, the government recovered $8.10. This is the highest...

The latest in the series of defendants charged with concealing accounts at Israeli banks is Monajem Hakimijoo, also known as Manny Hakimi, of Beverly Hills, California. In fact, he now has pleaded guilty in the U.S. District Court for the Central District...