Inc. for $ 2 billion, charging Morgan aided and
abetted fraud in a case heading to trial on March 21.
As stated in Judge Chen's decision, a claim of aiding and
abetting fraud requires proof that (1) WAMU had actual knowledge of the illegal activity being committed, and also (2) that the bank substantially assisted the scheme.
Represented an in - house lawyer accused of aiding and
abetting the fraud of corporate executives;
Not exact matches
That action for foreign currency rigging came less than two years after the bank was charged with two felony counts and given a deferred prosecution agreement for aiding and
abetting Bernie Madoff in the largest Ponzi
fraud in history.
If any of those potential criminal offenses were federal crimes, such as mail or wire
fraud, then interference with the investigation could conceivably be construed as obstruction of justice, or even aiding and
abetting the commission of such a crime or serving as an accessory after the fact to the criminal offense, said several legal experts who declined to speak on the record because of the sensitivity of the investigation.
While I have previously reduced that assertion to rubble on multiple occasions, it's worth nothing today that the industry itself has thrown in the towel at the highest levels, openly trading its tattered reputation for cash from sources whose stated intent is to deceive, then
abetting those same funding sources in that
fraud.
And yet nary a word about the
fraud of the century, a
fraud they've been aiding and
abetting for years now.
Yesterday, the Supreme Court announced that it accepted review of Stoneridge Investment v. Scientific Atlanta, an 8th Circuit decision where the court held that civil liability for damages does not lie against defendants who merely «aid and
abet» securities
fraud unless those defendants actually made a mistatement.