Search Results for: Hedges

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a lawsuit Tuesday to prevent two members of the Missouri Public Service Commission from gathering information about whether Missouri consumers' telephone records were released to the National Security...

USA Today reported Friday that its inside sources at BellSouth and Verizon are unable to "document a contractual relationship" between the two phone companies and the National Security Agency, or document that "the companies turned over...

Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal called for congressional action on regulation of the hedge fund industry, during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Wednesday. Blumenthal told the panel that federal oversight was needed to fill...

The US Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Friday struck down a US Securities and Exchange Commission rule regulating hedge funds. The rule required hedge fund advisors responsible...

Ranking US Senate Judiciary Committee Democrat Patrick Leahy rapped Attorney General Alberto Gonzales Wednesday after Gonzales sent a letter to Judiciary Committee members purporting to offer clarifications of his testimony last month on the...

JURIST Guest Columnist Ed Richards, Director of the Program in Law, Science, and Public Health at the Louisiana State University Law Center, says that President Bush's bird flu plan raises a number of legal issues even apart from the question...

Federated Investors has agreed to pay $100 million to settle allegations of improper trading . The investment firm was accused of allowing $1.6 billion in rapid trades by the hedge fund Canary Capital...

New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer Wednesday dropped criminal charges against Theodore Sihpol, a former Bank of America broker accused of aiding illegal trades by a hedge fund, after Sihpol settled related charges with...

Bayou Group hedge fund founder Samuel Israel, III and Chief Financial Officer Daniel Marino on Thursday pleaded guilty to fraud charges for their roles in a scandal that has led to the collapse of the fund and...

Leading Monday's corporations and securities law news, the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) has released a report urging the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to improve its oversight of the mutual funds industry. The report...