Frauds & Scandals

Credit Suisse Agrees to Plead Guilty in Tax Case Says US

Credit Suisse AG representatives appeared in a Virginia federal court to plead guilty on behalf of the Swiss firm to helping Americans cheat on their taxes, making it the first bank in more than a decade to admit to a crime in the U.S. The prosecution marks a tougher stance […]

SAC’s Steinberg gets 3-1/2 years prison for insider trading

Michael Steinberg, a portfolio manager at Steven A. Cohen’s SAC Capital Advisors hedge fund, was sentenced on Friday to 3-1/2 years in prison for insider trading. The sentence was imposed by U.S. District Judge Richard Sullivan in Manhattan, five months after a federal jury convicted Steinberg on securities fraud and […]

Money Laundering: Appeal Court Upturns Ibori’s Acquittal By Justice Awokulehin, Orders New Trial

Six years after Justice Marcel Awokulehin sensationally struck out all 170-count charge of money laundering preferred against former governor of Delta State, James Onanefe Ibori by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, a three-man panel of justices at the Benin Division of the Court of Appeal Thursday ruled that […]