Sentences with phrase «trading charges against»

He won convictions in public corruption cases against New York State Assemblyman Sheldon Silver and State Senator Dean Skelos, and also brought insider trading charges against Bernie Madoff.

Severely hampered in his pursuit of insider trading on Wall Street by a 2014 court case, Manhattan US Attorney Preet Bharara showed financial pros he still has game, announcing insider - trading charges against Las Vegas high roller Billy Walters and former Dean Foods Chairman Tom Davis.

Most recently, prosecutors filed insider trading charges against seven individuals over trades based on non-public information they were given by Daniel Rivas, a Bank of America employee.

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That order came as a result of charges the Federal Trade Commission levied against Facebook alleging that the company had deceived consumers about their ability to keep information they posted on the service private.

The appeal follows ramped - up efforts by U.S. authorities to crack down on insider trading, with the SEC announcing charges against more than 550 people in the past six years.

The U.S. Supreme Court is set to consider this week a closely watched insider trading case that could limit the ability of prosecutors to pursue such charges against hedge fund managers and other traders.

Sure, Donald Trump has led the charge against agreements like NAFTA, but Hillary Clinton has also adopted an anti-free trade stance after contending with the popularity of that position in her primary battle with Bernie Sanders.

The SEC announced it is pursuing insider trading charges Wednesday against billionaire hedge fund manager Leon Cooperman and his firm Omega Advisors.

In one, Ioffe brings up illicit trade and tax evasion charges made against him:

Billionaire cleared on insider trading charges brought against him by the Securities and Exchange Commission.

In June 2013, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) filed civil charges against Corzine for using funds from MF's customer accounts for corporate purposes.

In January, the CFTC filed charges against McDonnell and CabbageTech, Corp, charging them with fraud and misappropriation connected with the purchase and trading of bitcoin and Litecoin.

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission also filed parallel civil charges against Sarao on Tuesday, calling him a «very significant player in the market.»

SAN FRANCISCO — In charges that could delay Uber's chances of delivering the first commercial self - driving trucks, Alphabet Inc.'s self - driving car company Waymo has filed suit against the company for trade secret misappropriation, patent infringement and unfair competition.

The SEC has filed charges against a former Equifax executive for alleged insider trading on the information.

Continuing its entry into Bitcoin regulation, one week after the Coinflip action, on September 24, 2015, the CFTC again brought and settled charges related to Bitcoin, this time against TeraExchange LLC (Tera), a provisionally registered SEF, for failing to enforce its prohibition on wash trading and prearranged trading.15 At issue was a U.S. dollar — Bitcoin swap transaction from October 2014 between the only two market participants then authorized to trade on Tera.

In what the CFTC described as its first action against an unregistered Bitcoin options trading platform, the CFTC charged Coinflip, Inc. and its founder and chief executive officer with failures to comply with the CEA or CFTC regulations for operating a facility for trading or processing «commodity options.»

Since Galleon's demise, the FBI and regulators have brought countless charges of insider trading — most notably against Steven Cohen's SAC Capital Advisors, which plead guilty to insider trading charges in 2013 and paid a whopping $ 1.8 billion penalty.

Settlement final: The Federal Trade Commission gave final approval of an agreement settling charges against Abbott Laboratories that it conspired with others not to advertise its infant formula through the mass media.

The U.S. government has filed criminal and civil charges against a former Equifax Inc. executive over alleged insider trading linked to last year's massive data breach at the credit reporting company, officials said.

The starting materials for a new model are to hand in the charges brought against trade liberalisation.

«The Trade Union Congress of Nigeria wishes to warn the Senate against further plans to impoverish Nigerians with the recent move to hike the prices of fuel, diesel, and even factor in other assorted charges and surcharges «to fund the Proposed National Roads Fund».

US Attorney Preet Bharara decided to drop charges against Michael Steinberg, the former SAC Capital Advisors portfolio manager convicted of insider trading, because the Supreme Court refused to review the Second Circuit's landmark Newman decision.

Major electricity providers and some government officials in West Virginia, the state leading the charge against federal climate change regulations, want to use carbon trading to meet their greenhouse gas reduction targets, according to public records obtained by ClimateWire.

In the past year alone, charges have been dropped against five Chinese - born scientists accused of crimes related to trade secrets theft or economic spying.

XBIZ — May 18 — Friendfinder (Various Inc) filed suit against affiliate managers, Jack Mardack and Sean Barrett for breach of contract, misappropriation of trade secrets and defamation, among other charges, after they left the company and formed Profit Lab, which does consulting work for competitor Sex Search.

China immediately recognized the result with the EU eventually following suit, although the United States only certified Kenyatta's victory one month after the actual election, backtracking on pre-election threats of trade sanctions due to concerns with the ICC charges against the president - elect.

For the next year, the two traded highbrow insults and accusations: charges of plagiarism against Darrieussecq from 1998 resurfaced; Laurens was said to be jealous of the younger writer's success; their shared editor, Paul Otchakovsky, dropped Laurens.

Depending on which particular segment you are looking to trade or invest in, corresponding brokerage charges will be levied against your account.

In some cases we will file separate charges with the Federal Trade Commission and Bureau of Financial Protection against each Credit Bureau and each individual creditor.

Low - cost index funds (or exchange traded funds) give investors a big leg up against the vast majority of actively managed funds that charge more than 2 % of assets annually because most of the active funds fail to earn back the fees they charge.

In the make - or - take pricing model, exchanges (and some alternative trading systems) charge an access fee for executing marketable orders that fill against (take) standing orders and provides a liquidity rebate for executed standing orders that make markets.

At this point we will file separate charges with the Federal Trade Commission and Bureau of Financial Protection against each Credit Bureau and each individual creditor.

The Federal Trade Commission filed a lawsuit Feb. 9, 2017, against three interrelated student loan debt relief companies for allegedly violating Section 5 of the FTC Act and the Telemarketing Sales Rule.The FTC issued a press release saying that the defendants illegally charged thousands of consumers more than $ 28 million.

The US Federal Trade Commission (a federal agency with the job of protecting consumers) recently filed false advertising charges against Mars PetCare, the company that owns Eukanuba.

These charges echo those in a complaint against the LCFS filed by two ethanol trade groups — the Renewable Fuels Association (RFA) and Growth Energy — in December 2009.

When the geopotential energy in the west is sufficiently charged — and perhaps the Madden - Julian Oscillation causes the trade winds to falter — then these piled up waters will surge eastward to crash against the coast of the Americas.

Broomhead led the charge against emissions trading (which was supported by Treasury) on behalf of the fossil fuel lobby.

On August 24th, media reports confirmed that the Tokyo Police is planning to file charges against a total of 10 people and customers of the Ueno - based precious metal trading company «Flores» in Tokyo, under allegations of violating the Law on the Conservation of Endangered Species for trading in ivory.

His recent cases include defending the former President and majority shareholder of VAB Bank against charges of contempt of court (sole counsel); acting for Mercuria Energy Trading in its successful defence of a US$ 270 million claim by Citibank in one of the biggest High Court banking trials of 2014, acting for the Claimant in an on - going US$ 830 million fraud claim in the Commercial Court (Russian banking sector), a US$ 800 million joint venture dispute in the BVI and acting as junior counsel to the Claimants in Hulley & ors v.

In Dorozhko, the 2nd Circuit held that the SEC can proceed with fraud charges against a hacker for engaging in insider trading even though he owed no fiduciary duty to the company whose shares he traded.

*** I have advised the publishers that they may proceed against you through the Federal Trade Commission in Washington calling upon you to there defend yourself against the charge of «unfair competition,» because of your simulation of their title, or that they can proceed against you, the producers of your film, its distributors and exhibitors in court for an injunction restraining you from use of the title, «The Illiterate Digest.»

Defended an aerospace parts and service supplier in a trade secrets civil lawsuit in Georgia and against potential criminal charges, resulting in a dismissal of the civil complaint and no criminal charges being filed against the client.

White - Collar Crime columnists Elkan Abramowitz and Jonathan S. Sack discuss recent charges brought against an Equifax employee, which raise interesting questions as to when nonpublic information within a public company should be deemed material for purposes of insider trading enforcement.

The commission, however, dismissed two other charges against her, including a second accusation of insider trading involving the same company.

Barclays has faced intense public scrutiny in recent years: from the Serious Fraud Office's investigation into the bank's # 12bn fundraising at the height of the financial crisis, which resulted in criminal charges against the bank and former executives relating to a # 2.3 bn loan Barclays provided to Qatar, a multibillion - dollar legal battle with the US Department of Justice over allegedly - fraudulent mortgages and a New York currency trading probe that ended in a $ 150m settlement.

Charges were dismissed by the Ontario Court of Justice in R v. Lowman against two individuals who, in connection with their creation of a website, were alleged to have engaged in unregistered trading, issuing securities without filing a prospectus and making a prohibited representation that securities would be listed on an exchange with the intention of effecting a trade in breach of the Ontario Securities Act.

Last week, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the State of Florida filed a complaint against two companies charged with running debt relief schemes that targeted student loan borrowers.

We represent national and international companies, individual defendants and trade associations in connection with criminal antitrust investigations and prosecutions, and we have successfully represented defendants against charges of anticompetitive conduct at trial.

In April this year judgment was handed down in the first part of the eagerly awaited test case brought by the OFT against the UK's leading high street banks seeking a ruling on the fairness of their unauthorised overdraft charges (Office of Fair Trading v Abbey National plc and others [2008] EWHC 875 (Comm), [2008] All ER (D) 349 (Apr)-RRB-.