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Fraud
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Securities Law Prof Blog
SEC Settles Fraud Claims Involving How-to-Trade Workshops
The SEC today filed a settled civil injunctive action against Investools Inc., Michael J. Drew and Eben D. Miller. According to the SEC's complaint, from 2004 to approximately June 2007, at Investools how-to-trade-securities…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Might modern white-collar sentencing realities impact debates over honest services fraud?
Main December 7, 2009Might modern white-collar sentencing realities impact debates over honest services fraud?How Appealing links here to lots of major media coverage previewing SCOTUS oral arguments in the three…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Significant Ninth Circuit ruling on guideline loss calculations in fraud sentencings
Main November 30, 2009Significant Ninth Circuit ruling on guideline loss calculations in fraud sentencingsToday a Ninth Circuit panel has issued an important new ruling, and created a circuit split, concerning…
Pension Risk Matters
Is $88 Million Missing and If So, On Whose Watch?
According to TechCrunch ("Canopy Financial Turns Into Sad, Comical Game of Hot Potato" by Michael Arrington), nearly $90 million in venture capital money may have done little to thwart alleged…
Cam Law
Alleged abuse by “healer” and “shaman”
A man who called himself a healer and psychic surgeon and promised to cure breast cancer has gotten into legal trouble in Australia. Apparently this person claimed to be a shaman…
Asset Search Blog
Target Of Corruption Probe Sues Hip-Hoppers For Supposed Fraud
By Fred Abrams
A complaint verified by Former Premier Michael Misick of the Turks and Caicos Islands, claims hip- hop pioneers David Mays and Raymond Scott breached the Z & M Media LLC…
Structured Settlements 4Real® Blog
Rothstein Fraud: AmLaw Daily Needs A Kick in The Baxter For Shoddy Reporting
By John Darer
by John Darer® CLU ChFC MSSC RSP CLTC Brian Baxter of American Lawyer Daily seems to be handling the Scott Rothstein Fraud like it's a lost sock in the laundry—barely…
Business and Commercial
When Is a Purchaser of Art the Victim of Fraud?
As reported in a recent article published in the October 27, 2009 edition of the New York Law Journal, Judge Bransten of the New York Supreme Court dismissed a lawsuit by a purchaser…
Drug & Device Law
Actimmune Suit Gutted
By Bexis
We confess, we saw it first on 360 - but we had to put our two cents in. The plaintiffs' inability to plead fraud with particularity has just gutted a…
Health Industry Washington Watch
Part D Fraud & Abuse
The OIG has issued a report examining the extent to which Medicare Drug Integrity Contractors (MEDICs) identify Medicare Part D prescription drug fraud and abuse. The OIG found that 87% of…