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• Irish Tycoon Found, Hazy On Abduction

  

  The story of an emaciated, ragged man found wandering barefoot in the middle of a quiet country road last week in County Leitrim, near the border with Northern Ireland, continues to confound the police, even after he was identified as a missing Irish property tycoon who said he was abducted eight months ago and tortured during his captivity. The New York Times reports.

• The Most Wanted Gun in America

  

  Aggressive marketing and savvy manufacturing have helped recast the place of guns in American life, turning AR-15-style rifles into a fast-growing profit center.

• China Attacking US Online 

  

  Chinese hackers reportedly broke into email accounts of New York Times and Wall Street Journal employees. Gordon Chang, author of "the Coming Collapse of China," and Ann Lee, author of "What the U.S. Can Learn From China," offer insight.

• UPDATE 3-Informant in Galleon insider-trading case gets a year in prison

  NEW YORK, Jan 31- Roomy Khan, a one-time technology company executive who became a key FBI informant in the insider-trading case against hedge-fund manager Raj Rajaratnam, was sentenced to 12 months in prison on Thursday. District Judge Jed Rakoff in Manhattan also ordered her to forfeit nearly $1.53 million.

• TUPDATE 2-US insider trading informant gets 12 months in prison

  NEW YORK, Jan 31- Roomy Khan, a one-time technology company executive who became a key FBI informant in the insider-trading case against hedge-fund manager Raj Rajaratnam, was sentenced to 12 months in prison on Thursday. District Judge Jed Rakoff in Manhattan also ordered her to forfeit nearly $1.53 million.

• Regulators Missed Peregrine Warning Signs as Early as 1994: Report

  

  Regulators in charge of monitoring the bankrupt futures brokerage Peregrine Financial Group missed warning signs as far back as 1994, according to an independent report released on the same day Peregrine's founder was sentenced to 50 years in prison.

• UPDATE 1-US insider trading informant gets 12 months in prison

  NEW YORK, Jan 31- Roomy Khan, a one-time technology company executive who became a key FBI informant in the insider-trading case against hedge-fund manager Raj Rajaratnam, was sentenced to 12 months in prison on Thursday. District Judge Jed Rakoff in Manhattan also ordered she forfeit nearly $1.53 million.

• UPDATE 3-Peregrine boss Wasendorf gets 50 years jail for fraud

  CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa, Jan 31- A U.S. judge on Thursday sentenced the founder of Peregrine Financial Group to 50 years in prison for looting hundreds of millions of dollars from the brokerage, saying his customers would probably never recover the money they lost.

• Trusting China, Rebranding RIMM 

  

  The Chinese have hacked the New York Times, with CNBC's Michelle Caruso-Cabrera & Jon Fortt.

• Wasendorf Ordered to Pay $215.5M In Restitution 

  

  PFG founder Russell Wasendorf has been sentenced to 50 years in prison, reports CNBC's Scott Cohn.

• UPDATE 1-Credit Suisse fails to narrow Nat'l Century fraud trial

  *Credit Suisse accused of missing fraud, could owe $2 bln. Jack Grone, a Credit Suisse spokesman, had no immediate comment. Credit Suisse faces fraud and conspiracy claims by the state of Arizona, AllianceBernstein Holding LP, Lloyds TSB Bank Plc, MetLife Inc, Allianz SE's Pimco unit and other investors that bought National Century notes from 1998 to 2002..

• Vegas high-roller indicted in Ponzi scheme case

  LAS VEGAS-- A defense lawyer says a federal indictment accusing a millionaire Las Vegas businessman of wire fraud contains weaker criminal charges than those prosecutors alleged when they accused him last summer and of heading an elaborate international Ponzi scheme.

• Iran Hiding Nuclear Explosion? 

  

  There are reports that a key Iranian nuclear site was rocked by a massive underground explosion. John Batchelor, The John Batchelor Show host, shares his opinions.

• Obama's Media Coverage Criticisms 

  

  Discussing why journalist Steve Kroft couldn't get President Obama and Hillary Clinton to give the "real" narrative about the Benghazi scandal. Dan Gainor, Media Research Center, shares his opinions.

• Herb on the Street: Herbalife Getting Clobbered 

  

  CNBC's Herb Greenberg explains why the operations of Fortune Hi-Tech Marketing have been suspended after the FTC and several states alleged the marketer is one of the most elaborate pyramid schemes in North America.

• IRS Says It Prevented $20 Billion In Fraud in 2012 

  

  The IRS says it is constantly coming up with new filters to detect fraudulent returns, and that it prevented $20 billion of fraud in 2012, reports CNBC's Scott Cohn.

• Ex-banker accused of helping in Olympus fraud granted bail

  *Bail set at $5 mln for Chan Ming Fon. NEW YORK, Jan 25- A former Singapore banker charged with helping Japan's Olympus Corp engineer a $1.7 billion accounting fraud was granted bail by a U.S. judge on Friday.

• Syria Crisis Hurts Jordan: Minister  

  

  Ibrahim Abdulaziz Al-Assaf, Saudi Arabia's finance minister, highlights the impact of Syria's crisis on neighboring Turkey and Lebanon, and in particular, Jordan.

• Sen. Feinstein's Weapon Ban Fair? 

  

  Larry Kudlow debates with several experts about how a new gun proposal might work.

• UPDATE 1-Whitman Capital founder gets 2 years for insider trading

  *Doug Whitman convicted on Google, Marvell, Polycom trades. NEW YORK, Jan 24- California hedge fund manager Doug Whitman was sentenced on Thursday to two years in prison, after he became the first defendant in a broad U.S. crackdown on insider trading to take the stand to convince jurors of his innocence.