Short seller Andrew Left surrenders on securities fraud charges

Short seller Andrew Left surrenders on securities fraud charges

Andrew Left, founder and CEO of Citron Research Adam Jeffery | CNBC The activist short seller Andrew Left surrendered in Los Angeles on Monday to face federal criminal securities fraud charges, a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney’s Office there said. Left, 54, is scheduled to appear before Magistrate Judge Rozella Oliver in U.S. District Court … Read more

Short seller Andrew Left charged with fraud by prosecutors, SEC

Short seller Andrew Left charged with fraud by prosecutors, SEC

Andrew Left, founder and CEO of Citron Research Adam Jeffery | CNBC Federal prosecutors have criminally charged the activist short seller and analyst Andrew Left with securities fraud related to allegedly using his public platform to illegally profit to the tune of at least $16 million from manipulating stock market activity contrary to positions he … Read more

Rudy Giuliani bankruptcy case dismissed

Rudy Giuliani bankruptcy case dismissed

Rudy Giuliani speaks to members of the media where Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis was scheduled to host a campaign event in Manchester, New Hampshire, on Jan. 21, 2024. Brandon Bell | Getty Images A New York federal bankruptcy judge on Friday in a scathing ruling dismissed the Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection case of Rudy Giuliani, … Read more

Former Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani disbarred in New York

Former Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani disbarred in New York

Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani departs the U.S. District Courthouse after he was ordered to pay $148 million in his defamation case in Washington, U.S., December 15, 2023. Bonnie Cash | Reuters Rudy Giuliani’s New York law license was revoked on Tuesday amid allegations that he assisted former President Donald Trump’s failed effort to … Read more

Americans caught in fintech’s false FDIC promise

Americans caught in fintech’s false FDIC promise

Natasha Craft, a 25-year-old FedEx driver from Mishawaka, Indiana. She has been locked out of her Yotta banking account since May 11. Courtesy: Natasha Craft When Natasha Craft first got a Yotta banking account in 2021, she loved using it so much she told her friends to sign up. The app made saving money fun … Read more

FATF removes Turkey from money laundering ‘gray list’

FATF removes Turkey from money laundering ‘gray list’

As the sunsets, a ferry boat glides across the waters of the Golden Horn with the Suleymaniye Mosque and the city of Istanbul, Turkey in the background.  Vw Pics | Universal Images Group | Getty Images The Financial Action Task Force, an international watchdog organization dedicated to combating money laundering and illicit cash flows, on … Read more

Fugitive ex-CEO arrested on investor fraud charges

Fugitive ex-CEO arrested on investor fraud charges

Hercules Investments CEO and CIO James McDonald. CNBC A former investment company CEO who previously appeared as a paid contributor to CNBC was arrested on fraud charges after more than two years as a fugitive from a Securities and Exchange Commission investigation, federal prosecutors said. The defendant, James Arthur McDonald Jr., is accused of misrepresenting … Read more

UAW President Shawn Fain under investigation by federal monitor

UAW President Shawn Fain under investigation by federal monitor

United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain testifies about the toll of working hours on laborers before the Senate Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill on March 14, 2024 in Washington, DC.  Chip Somodevilla | Getty Images DETROIT – United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain is … Read more

DOJ settles CityMD Covid fraud allegations for $12 million

DOJ settles CityMD Covid fraud allegations for  million

People wait in in a queue to enter CityMD, a health clinic that offers coronavirus disease (COVID-19) testing, on the Upper West Side as the Omicron coronavirus variant continues to spread in Manhattan, New York City, U.S., December 19, 2021. Andrew Kelly | Reuters Walgreens-backed CityMD will pay $12.04 million to settle Covid fraud allegations … Read more

U.S. ignored evidence StanChart was serving sanctioned Iran groups: Whistleblower

U.S. ignored evidence StanChart was serving sanctioned Iran groups: Whistleblower

Standard Chartered Plc bank branch in Hong Kong Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Recent documents submitted to a U.S. federal court allege that major British bank Standard Chartered helped finance sanctioned Iranian entities and terrorist groups, and that relevant evidence was ignored by American authorities. London-based Standard Chartered, which primarily serves clients in emerging … Read more