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...sewing up closed-door deals in the wee hours of the night. Well, consider the new face of insider trading: John Freeman, a 34-year-old temp who, with 18 partners, was allegedly able to leverage a bunch of discarded faxes and other office detritus into $8.4 million in ill-gotten gains - all through the Web. The federal Securities and Exchange Commission revealed Tuesday that they've charged Freeman and his cohorts with conspiracy and insider trading in the pan-national ring formed two and a half years ago in an AOL chat room. The case highlights the double-edged...
During all this time, Frankel was losing a race to access his ill-gotten fortune before the law could seize his assets. He set up checking accounts in Rome under Allison's name, hoping to transfer funds from another of his Italian accounts. But that $500,000 stash was frozen by the Italian government. A Justice Department warrant mentioned his loot, and that made selling the diamonds too risky...
...suppliers of illegally tying up chemical feed-stocks used to make the drug. With control of the ingredients in hand, the FTC charged, Mylan could demand whatever price it wanted for the finished product. The FTC is now trying to force Mylan to "disgorge" $120 million in allegedly "ill-gotten gains" from the scheme. As FTC chairman Robert Pitofsky told TIME, "Mylan's illegal conduct deprived some consumers of access to these important drugs and put their health at risk...
...bargain prices and two years ago financed Yeltsin's come-from-behind election victory. The reappointment of Chernomyrdin, the ponderous former natural-gas bureaucrat who was for years Yeltsin's most obedient Prime Minister, signals the intention of these rich men to obtain a government that will protect their ill-gotten assets...
...quick profit--precisely the point I tried to illustrate with mcdonalds.com Predictably, the lawyers arrived and created a new field: Internet law. One enterprising company, NetNames International, even specializes in "domain-name recovery" and claims to have a stable of 60 attorneys worldwide standing by to repossess ill-gotten names. Not wanting quittner.com to fall into the wrong hands, I decided to procure it myself last week...