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Following is a list of securities frauds (also called stock frauds or investment frauds): 2003 Mutual-fund scandal: A number of major brokerages and mutual fund firms were accused of various deceptive acts that disadvantaged customers. Among them were late trading and market timing. Various SEC rules were enacted to curtail this practice. [1]
After falling share prices, and a failed share buy back scheme, it was found that the directors had used fraudulent accounting methods to push up the stock price. Rebranded MCI, it emerged from bankruptcy in 2004 and the assets were bought by Verizon. Parmalat: Italy: 24 Dec 2003: Food: The company's finance directors concealed large debts. MG ...
The Trump Organization, convicted of tax fraud, scheming to defraud, conspiracy, and falsifying business records. [9] Tyson Foods; Volkswagen, pleaded guilty to 3 criminal felonies related to its emissions scandal. [10] Waste Management, Inc; The Boeing Company, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to defraud the United States. This charge ...
A stock buyback is one of the major ways a company can use its cash, including investing in the operations, paying off debt, buying another company and paying out the money as a dividend to investors.
Stock buybacks are soaring in a sign that corporate America is bullish on the US economy. Companies have announced share repurchases of more than $383 billion in the last 13 weeks, up 30% from the ...
In July 2012, the SEC charged the chairman and CEO of a Santa Ana, California-based computer storage device company with insider trading in a secondary offering of his stock shares with knowledge of confidential information that a major customer's demand for one of its most profitable products was turning out to be less than expected.
BOSTON (Reuters) -Three cryptocurrency companies and 15 people have been charged with engaging in widespread fraud and market manipulation following an investigation in which the FBI for the first ...
The following is an alphabetical list of notable people known to have committed fraud. A Frank Abagnale Jr. , American impostor who wrote bad checks in 12 countries until arrested in 1969: falsely represented himself as a qualified member of professions such as airline pilot, doctor, attorney, and teacher; the film Catch Me If You Can is based ...