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• Tiger Woods’ Law Firm Reportedly Wrote Contract Killing Story of Parking Lot Liaison

  —ABA Journal Top Stories

  More than two years ago, Tiger Woods’ law firm helped negotiate a deal that squelched a potential National Enquirer story about a liaison with a restaurant worker, according to a published report. The law firm is Lavely & Singer, the Wall Street Journal reports. The 15-lawyer Los Angeles firm is [...]

  Posted: December 18, 2009, 2:55pm EST
  

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• Citigroup, J.P Morgan Chase, Morgan Stanley and Other Firms Added to Investigation of Goldman Sachs over "Front-Running" of Research

  —Stock Broker Fraud Blog

  The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority ( FINRA) has launched an investigation into improper trading in advance of stock research and ratings at Citigroup, J.P. Morgan Chase, Morgan Stanley and ten other financial firms, it was reported today by the Wall Street Journal and Reuters News Service.

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  Posted: December 18, 2009, 1:36pm EST
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• Hell hath no fury: Steve Cohen’s ex-wife alerted FBI of alleged insider trading 2 years before filing her recent lawsuit; FINRA looking at ‘trading huddles’; Government meddling said to shape B of A CEO search endgame; Finger pointing & in-fightin

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  Steven Cohen’s ex-wife dished to FBI Finra Probes Wall Street’s Trade Huddles Last Days of BofA’s Hunt For a CEO: Pay, Politics Banking Panel Backs Bernanke for New Term Discord Behind TARP Exits Pimco’s Gross Boosts Cash to Most Since Lehman Failed Harvard Swaps Are So Toxic Even Summers Won’t Explain Judge sets January 2011 trial for [...]

  Posted: December 18, 2009, 7:37am EST
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• Bank of America’s 44-Day GC Gets Chief Executive Job

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  The former general counsel of Bank of America has been chosen as its new chief executive. Brian Moynihan, 50, was chosen late Wednesday, according to stories in the New York Times, Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal (sub. req.). He joined Bank of America in 2004 when it acquired [...]

  Posted: December 17, 2009, 8:09am EST
  

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• House Approves Financial Reform Legislation

  —RiskMetrics Group

  The U.S. House of Representatives voted 223-202 today to approve the “The Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2009.” The wide-ranging bill includes an annual “say on pay” mandate and authorization for the SEC to issue a proxy access rule.

  The bill would authorize the SEC to [...]

  Posted: December 11, 2009, 4:04pm EST
  by RiskMetrics Group Blog Team

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• Facebook “friends” are co-conspirators in Overstock.com land

  —Fraud Files Blog

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  In the world of Patrick Byrne, CEO of flailing Overstock.com (NYSE:OSTK), his paid stalkers, and his nutty followers, anything and everything is evidence of a massive conspiracy on Wall Street. Involved in this massive conspiracy are “captured” journalists who “take orders” from hedge funds and help [...]

  Posted: December 11, 2009, 1:26pm EST
  by Tracy Coenen

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• The SEC Nails Investools

  —Gary Weiss

  One of the subjects I dealt with in Wall Street Versus America was how investors had been preyed upon by phony investment seminars, which were little more than schemes that parted investors from their money. One of the grimier efforts was "Investools," which put on seminars using tie-ins, now [...]

  Posted: December 10, 2009, 2:11pm EST
  by Gary Weiss

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• Baucus Recommended Girlfriend for U.S. Attorney Post

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  Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., has confirmed that he nominated his girlfriend along with two other candidates to be U.S. attorney for Montana. The woman, Melodee Hanes, withdrew from consideration to live with Baucus in Washington, D.C. Main Justice and Roll Call broke the news on Friday, the Wall Street Journal [...]

  Posted: December 07, 2009, 7:36am EST
  

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• Comcast-NBC Deal to Put a Fleet of M&A Lawyers to Work

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  Comcast's proposed purchase of a controlling share of NBC Universal yesterday, and troops are being assembled. The Wall Street Journal (sub. req.) calls the deal, valued at about $30 billion "legal boomlet amid a slow season of M&A activity." The deal is "likely to require a small army of lawyers" [...]

  Posted: December 04, 2009, 4:57pm EST
  

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• Hung Jury Prompted Law Partners to Go into the Pizza Biz

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  Larry Flax and Rick Rosenfield met in the '70s as federal prosecutors and eventually started up their own law practice. But the two decided to shed their lawyerly past in 1985 after a "grueling trial" that ended in a hung jury, the Wall Street Journal reports in a Q&A profiling' [...]

  Posted: December 02, 2009, 5:34pm EST
  

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• A Second Judge Has Questions on an SEC Settlement

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  A second federal judge is asking questions about a proposed settlement involving the Securities and Exchange Commission. U.S. District Judge Harold Baer Jr. of New York has scheduled a hearing for this afternoon in an insider trading case, the Wall Street Journal (sub. req.) reports. The defendant, Khaled Mohammed Sharif [...]

  Posted: December 01, 2009, 12:22pm EST
  

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• Senator Sanders won’t vote for Bernanke; Wall Streeter’s conspicuous spending returns!; Dubai debt crisis; UAE sets up emergency facility for banks; UAE blocks then unblocks the Times of London; B of A CFO, mtge unit president take salary hits; RIP F

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  Senator opposes Fed chief Bernanke renomination Shhh! Wall Street is Spending Again UAE central bank sets up emergency facility for banks Crisis Puts Focus on Dubai’s Complex Relationship With Abu Dhabi Dubai Default Swaps Show No Distress on Bailout Bets U.A.E. Blocks Sunday Times Over Coverage of Dubai Debt Crisis London Times Back on U.A.E. Newsstands [...]

  Posted: November 30, 2009, 7:43am EST
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• Skadden Jumps on the Bonus Bandwagon

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  Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom has announced its associate bonuses, and they match the lower amounts being paid at two other law firms. Associate bonuses at Skadden will range from $7,500 to $30,000, according to the Wall Street Journal Law Blog, the American Lawyer and Above the Law. Last year, [...]

  Posted: November 20, 2009, 7:25am EST
  

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