SEC Charges NIR Group Ribotsky with Massive Fraud Scheme

NIR Group founder Corey Ribotsky was finally charged with creating a scheme to defraud investors in his hedge funds. Today the SEC filed a 34-page lawsuit detailing how Ribotsky lied to investors in 2008 about the value of the assets when he could not meet redemption request. The federal regulator, who DealFlow Media has been […]

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Wells Fargo Suit against JP Morgan Highlights Rampant Missreps in Bear Stearns RMBS

Wells Fargo is fighting back for investors in a toxic 2007 Bear Stearns mortgage security. On Wednesday, the bank acting on behalf of investors as the trustee of the security, filed a breach of representations suit against J.P. Morgan and its subsidy EMC. The suit is over $560 million of loans investors believe should be […]

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DOJ Ask Judge to Thrown RBS Embezzler James Glover in Jail

Former RBS executive James Glover could be sent to jail today. The Connecticut office of the Dept. of Justice filed papers this week asking the judge to thrown Jamie in the slammer. On June 1st 2011, Glover plead guilty to stealing more than $600,000 from RBS’s Greenwich Capital division. We reported at Greenwich Time last […]

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Report Says: Bear Stearns Executives Sold Illegal RMBS and Covered It Up

Former back office employees from Bear Stearns are coming out of the woodwork to explain how Tom Marano’s mortgage group cheated their own clients out of billions. This week I reported at The Distressed Debt Report, EMC insiders say they were told to make up the classification for whole loans, packaged into mortgage securities, to […]

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Michael Metter’s Spongetech Partner Makes Plea Deal with Feds

It looks like Michael Metter’s Spongetech partner is fessing up to the Brooklyn Dept. of Justice. Last week Steven Moskowitz plead guilty to a criminal charge of securities fraud. Aaron Elstein, of Crain’s New York, first reported the news on Friday. It’s unclear what monetary fines or jail time Moskowitz is facing. Robert Nardoza, DOJ […]

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Best Trade: Todd Edgar says Goodby to Bank Prop Trading

Barclays Capital has been forced to layoff off its star commodity trading team because of Dodd-Frank legislation reports Patrick Jenkins at the Financial Times last night. Edgar became somewhat of a celebrity trader after my team at Trader Monthly discovered his talents for reading global macro trends and parlaying them into a killer gold trade […]

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UPDATE: JP Morgan is afraid of the RMBS Fraud Suits

JP Morgan is showing signs of fear. Yesterday, I updated Keiser Report viewers on the dirty tricks the bank’s lawyers and former Bear Stearns mortgage traders are pulling in an atempt to stop the truth coming out in the Bear Stearns/EMC fraud suit. A story I first began reporting a year ago at The Atlantic […]

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