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...Street names, saying the stories painted an "unfair picture." While chief at FINRA, she countered, her team handled 15,000 enforcement cases, including big names like Morgan Stanley, Citigroup, Merrill-Lynch and Lehman. "I have never been afraid to go after people I thought who have violated the public trust...
...accompanying civilian casualties have become a potent anti-American rallying point. Despite Pakistan's official opposition to the strikes, senior officials have indicated that the authorities there may have provided intelligence in some instances. The suspicion of such complicity only further enrages the Pakistani public and undermines public trust in the government...
...Harold McGee, who writes regularly on the science of cooking for The New York Times, and, along with physicist Davide Cassi, also participated in the panel. "If it were called something else, it wouldn't make you think there's something there you don't know or can't trust. But the moment you start talking about molecules, about these particles that you can't see, people begin to get concerned...
...charges that Theodule used the funds to play the market. In total, he lost 97% of all investor funds - including $18 million last year alone. In addition, the SEC says, Theodule took $3.8 million for himself and his family. So much for trust. Theodule's lawyer, Charles Pickett Jr., did not comment on the case...
Like any good affinity fraud, Theodule allegedly tapped into the trust of his people - in this case, Haitian immigrants - and used unregistered investment clubs that fly under the SEC radar to make his scam work. The funds were said to be used for new Haitian-American business ventures in the U.S., Haiti and Sierra Leone. He even used the gambit of a fake investment-club regulatory agency he called Smart Investment Management Services LLC to add a measure of security and to tout independent verification. (See the top 10 scandals...