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Nearly three months after MF Global Holdings Ltd. collapsed, officials hunting for an estimated $1.2 billion in missing customer money increasingly believe that much of it might never be recovered, according to people familiar with the investigation. Read more
| Posted by SCOTT PATTERSON and AARON LUCCHETTI on Jan 31, 2012 | ||
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HOUSTON — R. Allen Stanford and James M. Davis were roommates at Baylor University and trusted friends over three decades who together built an international financial empire. But this week they are scheduled to confront each other in federal court as indicted swindlers ready to cross swords. Read more
| Posted by CLIFFORD KRAUSS on Jan 31, 2012 | ||
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Dodd-Frank’s Whistleblower Provisions The Dodd-Frank whistleblower provisions, codified as Section 21F of the Exchange Act, require the SEC to pay bounties to persons who provide information leading to a successful securities law enforcement action, in which more than $1 million is recovered. Read more
| Posted by Matt Morley and Carol Elder Bruce on Jan 31, 2012 | ||
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In his State of the Union address , Obama has announced a task force to go after the fraud that caused the financial crisis. "We will…establish a Financial Crimes Unit of highly trained investigators to crack down on large-scale fraud and protect people's investments. Read more
| Posted by SOX First on Jan 31, 2012 | ||
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 27, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- With the recent appointment of a director for the new Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Whistleblower Office, the CFTC has shown it is ready to move forward with its new whistleblower program, says whistleblower law firm Phillips & Cohen LLP. Read more
| Posted by PRNewswire via COMTEX - SOURCE Phillips & Cohen LLP on Jan 30, 2012 | ||
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More to be done to protect patients, says NHS Employers Doctors must not sign work contracts that include ‘gagging clauses’ preventing them from raising concerns about poor quality care, according to new guidance from the General Medical Council (GMC). Read more
| Posted by Claire Churchard - People Management on Jan 30, 2012 | ||
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THE CABINET IS set to discuss whistleblower legislation at a meeting tomorrow morning. The issue, which has been raised in recent weeks following the dismissal of a whistleblower working in St Brendan’s Hospital at Grangegorman, is contained within the Programme for Government. Read more
| Posted by The Journal on Jan 30, 2012 | ||
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(Reuters) - The Justice Department issued civil subpoenas to 11 financial institutions as part of a new effort to investigate misconduct in the packaging and sale of home loans to investors, Attorney General Eric Holder said on Friday. Read more
| Posted by Aruna Viswanatha and James Vicini on Jan 30, 2012 | ||
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In 2011, courts addressed a variety of securities law claims arising from the newly enacted Dodd-Frank Act. Signed into law in July 2010, passage of the Dodd-Frank Act was spurred in part by the Bernard Madoff Ponzi scheme in addition to other smaller-scale fraudulent schemes. Read more
| Posted by Chris W. Haaf and Monica C. Platt on Jan 26, 2012 | ||
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VANCOUVER — Sino-Forest Corp. has failed to respond to information requests by the Ontario Securities Commission, according to a Globe and Mail report. It cites a senior OSC investigator as saying the timber company has not yet provided information about its assets and relationships with key business partners in China. Read more
| Posted by The Canadian Press on Jan 27, 2012 | ||
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