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...classic plotline of spy novels is that the secret agent turns out to be the quiet bespectacled fellow next door. U.S. Army Captain James Yee, being held by the government as part of its probe of espionage at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, fits the prototype almost perfectly...
Spitzer's investigation, which like his stock-research probe has been based in large part on incriminating corporate e-mail, will almost certainly lead to additional inquiries about fund fees and the roles of fund directors. It may also lead to efforts to corral the largely unregulated and fast-growing hedge-fund world, which has $600 billion in assets. It's the hedge funds, investment vehicles available mainly to the wealthy, that sometimes roil markets with rapid trades of stocks, bonds and currencies and that appear to be the main clients that have traded mutual fund shares...
...heart of the Spitzer probe are two practices that, by some estimates, collectively bilk fund investors out of as much as $4 billion a year. One is late trading, which is illegal. Spitzer brought grand-larceny and securities-fraud charges against Theodore Sihpol III, a former broker at Bank of America, alleging that Sihpol helped Canary Partners, a hedge fund, place orders to buy and sell Nations Funds shares as late as 6:30 p.m. at the funds' 4 p.m. (closing) price. The scheme allowed Canary, which has settled its case with Spitzer for $40 million, to profit from intervening...
...Finding Life on Mars The proximity of Mars to Earth [NOTEBOOK, Sept. 1] once again raised the question of whether there is life on the Red Planet. When the Soviet Union launched an unmanned probe to scout the Martian skies [July 18, 1988], we took the opportunity to remind readers that years ago, earlier space experts, including astronomer Carl Sagan, predicted that finding evidence of civilized life on Mars might be far more daunting than anyone had expected...
...Justice Department has opened a preliminary inquiry into whether a Bush Administration official illegally revealed the identity of a CIA employee whose husband criticized the Administration's handling of intelligence on Iraq, TIME has learned. The probe will determine whether to order a full-fledged FBI investigation...