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David B. Pinkerton’s charges are dropped
Aaron Siegel of Investment News reports that David Pinkerton will not be convicted of conspiracy to violate the Foreign Currupt Practices Act or money-laundering conspiracy. Full article: Charges against AIG Global exec dropped Original report (Oct. 10, 2005): AIG...
Samuel Israel’s Mom
InvestmentNews.com reports that Samuel Israels mom was behind bringing Israel back to police. They report that she had been in touch with him for several weeks and pressured him to turn himself over to the police. The article by Aaron Siegel can be read here.
A message to current Fleecers from Fleecing Central
Reading a quote from Phillip Bennett that he said prior to entering his plea, “I know I was wrong, and I deeply regret it. I take full responsibility for my actions. I wish to publicly apologize to my family and to all those I’ve harmed.” made me think that it wasn't...
Phillip Bennett
Phillip Bennett formerly of Refco was sentenced to 16 years in prison for trying to hide huge losses from the investing public. The debt of $430M of the firm that Bennett controlled that was owed to Refco was hidden when Refco went public. The Yahoo article can be...
Jeff Skilling and Ken Lay
I found a link to the verdict and sentences from all of the charges against the Enron Executives. The list can be seen here.
Joseph Nacchio
You can see the Times Topics page with articles about Joseph Nacchio here.
Gary Lewellyn
Gary Lewellyn faced a 20-year sentence for fleecing $17.7M from two banks in Iowa. The NY Times article, published on November 18, 1982, can be seen here.
Samuel Israel
Samuel Israel has been captured by police this morning. The New York Times has been following the case and has archived articles here. The Bloomberg.com article can be seen here. Or an updated and more in depth yahoo.com version can be seen here.