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Theranos executives charged by SEC for 'massive fraud'
The SEC has charged Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes, and its former President Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani, with raising more than $700 million from investors “through an elaborate, years-long fraud.”
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SEC resolves two financial fraud cases
The SEC this week announced financial fraud cases against a pair of companies and their former executives accused of various accounting failures that left investors without accurate depictions of company finances. “We are intensely focused on whether companies and their officers evaluate judgmental accounting issues in good faith and based ...
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"America's Most Hated Man" Martin Shkreli Arrested for Securities Fraud
In recent weeks, Martin Shkreli, CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals AG, has become the the “most hated man in America” for unapologetically raising the price of an important HIV-fighting drug from $13.50 to $750. It was with unbridled glee, then, that the media reported that Shkreli was arrested this morning on ...
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'Laws of the Land' Finally Catching Up to Former Satyam CEO, Part II
In July 2014, I noted here that although it had taken over five years, the wheels of justice were finally in motion against B. Ramalinga Raju, former chairman and CEO of Satyam Computer Services, as India's securities regulator had ordered Raju, his brother, and two others to disgorge $307 million. ...
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Lawyerless Allen Stanford Files 299-Page Brief Appealing His Conviction
"Life comes at you fast," doesn't it Allen Stanford? (Just ask MC Hammer).One day you are have a net worth of $2.2 billion, an office with its own five-star dining room, movie theater, professional kitchen and wine bar, and island nations such as Antigua are granting you knighthood. The next ...