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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.
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Data from a market research company indicates that for every $2 spent on legitimate software, $1 goes to pirates.
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In a partial verdict decision, a U.S. jury found former brokers and day-trading executives not guilty on most of the counts they faced in a trial over improper use of information broadcast over brokers' internal " squawk box" systems.
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William Sorin pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Brooklyn to one criminal count of conspiracy to commit securities fraud, mail fraud and wire fraud as part of a plea agreement.
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Randi Collotta, 30, a former employee of Morgan Stanley in Manhattan, and her husband, Christopher Collotta, 34, who worked in private practice, were among 13 people criminally charged in the case.
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A woman apologized Monday for outing former Eli Lilly chairman and top State Department official Randall Tobias as a client of her escort service but said it was necessary to prove her company was doing legal business.
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A man whom law enforcement officials claim mailed pipe bombs to investment houses may have been foiled by being the only person who owned the right combination of stocks that would have benefited from price moves the perpetrator demanded.
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Banks have been saddled with costs to replace cards and cover fraudulent charges tied to the theft from TJX, the owner of nearly 2,500 discount stores including T.J. Maxx and Marshalls.
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A Virginia Tech senior from South Korea killed at least 30 people locked inside a classroom building in the deadliest shooting rampage in modern U.S. history, the university and police said.
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A gunman killed 33 people at a Virginia university on Monday, calmly gunning down students attending class and then killing himself in the deadliest shooting rampage in U.S. history.
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At least 45.7 million credit and debit card numbers of TJX. customers were stolen from the discount retailer's computer system over several years, according to a regulatory filing by the company Wednesday.
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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said on Wednesday that it charged two former in-house lawyers at Enron with securities fraud.
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Stockman was the former chairman and CEO of Michigan-based Collins & Aikman, which makes auto parts. He served as budget director under President Reagan.
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The head of oil group Total, France's biggest listed company, is being questioned by police in a probe into alleged corruption in Iran, a spokesman for the company said on Wednesday.
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Colombia may seek to extradite employees from Chiquita after the U.S. banana giant pleaded guilty to charges a subsidiary paid protection money to illegal paramilitary gangs, the country's top prosecutor said on Tuesday.
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The meltdown among U.S. subprime mortgage lenders including New Century Financial Corp. broadened on Tuesday, as Accredited Home Lenders Holding Co. shares fell more than 60 percent, and investors worried that more lenders might restructure or seek bankruptcy protection.
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New Century Financial said on Tuesday it underestimated its debt to Credit Suisse by $500 million, the latest snafu for a company under investigation by U.S. securities regulators and facing delisting from the New York Stock Exchange.
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Federal prosecutors are strongly considering criminal charges against former executives of Broadcom., Apple, and KLA-Tencor, related to the backdating of stock options, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the situation.
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Federal prosecutors are poised to score their first victory in their investigation of Hewlett-Packard's ill-fated boardroom spying probe, after a private investigator agreed to plead guilty to identity theft and conspiracy charges.
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Former Enron executive Richard Causey had been scheduled to report to prison on Tuesday, according to a newspaper report.
American Greed
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Sir Allen Stanford was once one of the richest men in America. His company, The Stanford Financial Group, made its name selling what’s usually a safe bet for investors – certificates of deposits. But Stanford was eventually convicted of running an international $7 billion Ponzi scheme!
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A rabbi's son creates a multi-million dollar real estate scam and becomes an informant in order to avoid prison.
