<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Corporate Crime: News &amp; Videos about Corporate Crime - CNN.com</title><link>http://topics.cnn.com/topics/feeds/rss/Corporate_Crime</link><description>Find stories, videos, and photos about Corporate Crime from CNN.com.</description><language>en-us</language><copyright>Cable News Network LP, LLLP.</copyright><pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 18:08:12 GMT</pubDate><ttl>5</ttl><image><title>Corporate Crime: News &amp; Videos about Corporate Crime - CNN.com</title><url>http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.element/img/1.0/logo/cnn.logo.rss.gif</url><link>http://topics.cnn.com/topics/feeds/rss/Corporate_Crime</link><width>144</width><height>33</height><description>Find stories, videos, and photos about Corporate Crime from CNN.com.</description></image><item><title>Madoff friend Jeffry Picower dies</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2009/10/25/news/picower.reut/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2009/10/25/news/picower.reut/index.htm</guid><description>Palm Beach billionaire Jeffry Picower, described by the trustee in the Madoff case as the biggest beneficiary of Bernard Madoff's fraud, died Sunday after he was found lying at the bottom of the pool at his home, police said.</description><pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 23:33:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Madoff relatives may face $198 million suit</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2009/09/28/news/economy/madoff_lawsuit_ponzi/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2009/09/28/news/economy/madoff_lawsuit_ponzi/index.htm</guid><description>The court-appointed trustee in the Bernard Madoff case plans to sue four more of his family members for nearly $200 million this week, according to a broadcast report.</description><pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 15:14:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Catching bad guys: Tough times at SEC</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2009/09/24/news/companies/sec_insider_trading_enforcement/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2009/09/24/news/companies/sec_insider_trading_enforcement/index.htm</guid><description>The SEC could use more days like this.</description><pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 18:33:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>SEC investigation: We missed Madoff</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2009/09/02/news/economy/Madoff_SEC_investigation/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2009/09/02/news/economy/Madoff_SEC_investigation/index.htm</guid><description>The Securities and Exchange Commission overlooked "more than ample" evidence, including six complaints, that red-flagged the Bernard Madoff Ponzi scheme, an internal watchdog said Wednesday.</description><pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 00:52:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Ruth Madoff sued for $45 million</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2009/07/29/news/economy/ruth_madoff_ponzi/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2009/07/29/news/economy/ruth_madoff_ponzi/index.htm</guid><description>Ruth Madoff, wife of imprisoned Ponzi schemer Bernard Madoff, was sued Wednesday by a court-appointed trustee seeking $45 million in funds to compensate victims.</description><pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 19:13:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>5 fraud probes you haven't heard of</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2009/07/16/news/economy/five_fed_fraud_probes/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2009/07/16/news/economy/five_fed_fraud_probes/index.htm</guid><description>Bernard Madoff may have made headlines as the biggest Ponzi schemer in history, but there are plenty of other cases to share the limelight.</description><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 16:45:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>SEC charges 4 with helping Madoff</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2009/06/22/news/economy/madoff_charges/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2009/06/22/news/economy/madoff_charges/index.htm</guid><description>The Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday charged a brokerage firm and several individuals with raising money from investors to feed Bernard Madoff's Ponzi scheme.</description><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 11:04:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Financier Stanford indicted for $7B fraud</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2009/06/19/news/economy/Stanford_indictment/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2009/06/19/news/economy/Stanford_indictment/index.htm</guid><description>Billionaire financier Robert Allen Stanford has been indicted on charges of criminal conspiracy to commit mail, wire and securities fraud, actions that earned his company an estimated $7 billion dollars, prosecutors said Friday.</description><pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 17:25:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Financier Stanford indicted on mail, wire and securities fraud</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/06/19/stanford.indictment/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/06/19/stanford.indictment/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Billionaire financier Robert Allen Stanford has been indicted on charges of criminal conspiracy to commit mail, wire and securities fraud, actions that earned his company an estimated $7 billion, prosecutors said Friday.</description><pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 17:21:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Texas billionaire Stanford arrested in U.S.</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/06/18/stanford.fraud.charge/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/06/18/stanford.fraud.charge/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Texas billionaire Allen Stanford was taken into custody Thursday night on a fraud-related charge in Stafford, Virginia, the FBI said.</description><pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 04:22:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Madoff victims seek to recalculate claims</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/06/08/madoff.victims/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/06/08/madoff.victims/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>In a new bankruptcy court filing, some investors swindled by convicted Ponzi schemer Bernard Madoff seek to reframe calculations that will determine how much money they can collect from a pool of recovered funds.</description><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 22:33:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>U.S. probes Google, Apple on hiring</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2009/06/03/technology/tech_antitrust/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2009/06/03/technology/tech_antitrust/index.htm</guid><description>The U.S. Justice Department is investigating the hiring practices of some major players in the tech industry in the latest sign that the Obama administration is getting serious about its antitrust crackdown promises.</description><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 17:29:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>How Bernie did it</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2009/04/24/news/newsmakers/madoff.fortune/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2009/04/24/news/newsmakers/madoff.fortune/index.htm</guid><description>The employees were transfixed. Standing on the mid-Manhattan trading floor of Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities in late 2007, a half-dozen staffers stared up at the ceiling-mounted TV as CNBC aired a report on the mysterious Palm Beach death of a hedge fund manager who had been leading a double life. The police, it appeared, were even considering the possibility that he had been murdered. "Bernie," someone casually asked as Madoff happened to walk by, "have you heard of this guy?"</description><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 19:45:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Stanford denies fraud, threatens interviewer</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/04/07/stanford.interview/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/04/07/stanford.interview/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Allen Stanford, the Texan billionaire accused of a $9.2 billion fraud by U.S. regulators has denied any wrongdoing in a tearful interview in which he threatened to punch his questioner in the mouth.</description><pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2009 15:33:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Investment firm charged in Madoff case</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2009/04/01/news/companies/madoff_fairfieldgreenwich/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2009/04/01/news/companies/madoff_fairfieldgreenwich/index.htm</guid><description>The Commonwealth of Massachusetts' securities division on Wednesday charged investment firm Fairfield Greenwich with fraudulently representing its dealings with convicted Ponzi mastermind Bernard Madoff.</description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2009 11:59:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Assets of Madoff's brother frozen</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/03/25/madoff.brother.assets/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/03/25/madoff.brother.assets/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>The financial assets of Peter Madoff -- brother of convicted Ponzi schemer Bernard Madoff -- have been frozen until an April 3 court hearing by Nassau Supreme Court Justice Stephen Bucaria, according to an order the judge filed on Wednesday.</description><pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2009 01:54:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>43 criminal investigations of Wall Street</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2009/03/20/news/economy/fraud_probes/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2009/03/20/news/economy/fraud_probes/index.htm</guid><description>Criminal investigations of Wall Street continue to soar and now total 43, a top FBI official told Congress Friday.</description><pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2009 19:23:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Madoff accountant out on $2.5 million bond</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2009/03/18/news/companies/madoff_jail_appeal/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2009/03/18/news/companies/madoff_jail_appeal/index.htm</guid><description>David Friehling, accountant for Bernard Madoff, was released on $2.5 million bond after turning himself in Wednesday to face charges that he "rubber stamped" the Ponzi schemer's books.</description><pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2009 13:19:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Feds go after Bernard Madoff's riches</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/03/16/madoff.assets/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/03/16/madoff.assets/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Federal prosecutors are seeking the forfeiture of Bernard Madoff's four homes and other assets after Madoff's guilty plea to masterminding a massive investment fraud.</description><pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2009 21:58:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Madoff worth more than $820 million, document says</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/03/14/madoff.worth/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/03/14/madoff.worth/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Bernard Madoff, who pleaded guilty to operating a multibillion-dollar Ponzi scheme, is worth up to $826 million, according to a document filed with a federal court on Friday.</description><pubDate>Sat, 14 Mar 2009 23:23:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Victim wishes long life for Madoff in jail</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/03/12/madoff.victims/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/03/12/madoff.victims/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Richard Friedman lost more than $3 million to Bernard Madoff's investment scheme. Following the disgraced broker's guilty plea Thursday, Friedman said he hopes Madoff lives a long time.</description><pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 20:15:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Madoff: 'I knew this day would come'</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2009/03/12/news/newsmakers/madoff_courtappearance/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2009/03/12/news/newsmakers/madoff_courtappearance/index.htm</guid><description>Bernard Madoff, who stole billions from investment clients, was ordered jailed Thursday after pleading guilty to all 11 criminal counts in one of Wall Street's biggest swindles ever.</description><pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 19:33:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>The mystery of Ruth Madoff's money</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2009/03/12/news/newsmakers/ruth.fortune/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2009/03/12/news/newsmakers/ruth.fortune/index.htm</guid><description>With Bernard Madoff pleading guilty to federal charges that will likely send him to prison for life, attention has turned toward his wife, Ruth. Or, more specifically, to two questions about her: What did she know of the fraud? And, will she keep the tens of millions of dollars worth of property and assets in her name?</description><pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 15:10:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Lawyer: Madoff to plead guilty, faces 150 years</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/03/10/madoff.plea/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/03/10/madoff.plea/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Accused investment swindler Bernard L. Madoff will plead guilty later this week to 11 counts that could bring a sentence of 150 years in prison, one of his attorneys told CNN.</description><pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2009 02:46:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Madoff to plead guilty on 11 charges</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2009/03/10/news/newsmakers/madoff_guilty_plea_expected/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2009/03/10/news/newsmakers/madoff_guilty_plea_expected/index.htm</guid><description>Alleged swindler Bernard Madoff will plead guilty later this week to 11 counts, including money laundering, perjury and fraud, that could bring a sentence of 150 years in prison, one of Madoff's attorneys, Ira Lee Sorkin, told CNN.</description><pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 21:49:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Judge unfreezes assets of Stanford investors</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2009/03/06/news/companies/stanford_investors/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2009/03/06/news/companies/stanford_investors/index.htm</guid><description>A federal judge has unfrozen the assets of about 12,000 people and groups who invested in companies of R. Allen Stanford, who is accused in a $9.2 billion fraud scheme.</description><pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2009 19:56:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Stanford Financial: How to buy a reputation</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2009/03/04/news/newsmakers/stanford_influence.fortune/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2009/03/04/news/newsmakers/stanford_influence.fortune/index.htm</guid><description>The life of Sir Allen Stanford, the cricket and polo-loving financier who is being investigated for a potential Ponzi scheme, is a case study in how to buy respectability and influence.</description><pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2009 17:54:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Stanford Financial Group officer arrested</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/02/26/stanford.arrest/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/02/26/stanford.arrest/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>The chief investment officer of the firm headed by financier Alan Stanford, who is accused in an alleged $8 billion fraud scheme, was arrested and charged Thursday in Houston, Texas.</description><pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2009 03:52:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Madoff 101: Total Immersion for Lawyers</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2009/02/26/news/newsmakers/parloff_madoff.fortune/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2009/02/26/news/newsmakers/parloff_madoff.fortune/index.htm</guid><description>If you think you dodged the Madoff bullet, can you really be sure? Say, for instance, you briefly invested five years ago in a fund, and that fund in turn invested in a fund-of-funds that invested in a feeder fund that invested with Madoff. Could the Madoff trustee knock on your door and demand that you return any profits?</description><pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2009 17:54:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Burned investors sound off on Madoff</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2009/02/20/news/newsmakers/madoff_investors/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2009/02/20/news/newsmakers/madoff_investors/index.htm</guid><description>Investors allegedly swindled in the largest Ponzi scheme in history reacted furiously when they learned Friday that Bernard Madoff didn't put any of their money into securities for at least 13 years.</description><pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2009 19:34:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Madoff case delayed another 30 days</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2009/02/11/news/newsmakers/madoff_delay/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2009/02/11/news/newsmakers/madoff_delay/index.htm</guid><description>Federal prosecutors and the defense for alleged fraud mastermind Bernard Madoff have agreed to push back the deadline for an indictment or probable cause hearing for the former investor, sources close to the case said Wednesday.</description><pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2009 01:43:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Madoff whistle-blower tells SEC of 2 new potential fraud cases</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/02/05/madoff.whistleblower/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/02/05/madoff.whistleblower/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Harry Markopolos, the fraud investigator whose efforts to blow the whistle on investment adviser Bernard Madoff were rebuffed by the Securities and Exchange Commission, Thursday presented the SEC's inspector general with evidence of two new cases of potential investment fraud.</description><pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2009 04:14:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>List of Madoff 'customers' runs into the thousands</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/02/05/madoff.customer.list/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/02/05/madoff.customer.list/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>A 162-page list naming thousands of "customers" of alleged fraud mastermind Bernard Madoff has been filed with the bankruptcy judge overseeing the case.</description><pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2009 23:33:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Big banks hit by the Madoff mess</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2009/02/05/news/companies/madoff_banks/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2009/02/05/news/companies/madoff_banks/index.htm</guid><description>As the Bernard Madoff scandal continues to play out, it is becoming increasingly clear how devastating the alleged fraud has been for the banking industry.</description><pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2009 14:18:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Madoff whistleblower blasts SEC</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2009/02/04/news/newsmakers/madoff_whistleblower/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2009/02/04/news/newsmakers/madoff_whistleblower/index.htm</guid><description>A whistleblower who repeatedly warned the Securities and Exchange Commission that Bernard Madoff was perpetrating a massive investment fraud testified Wednesday that the regulatory agency that oversees financial markets is inept, "financially illiterate" and far too cozy with the financial titans it is supposed to be regulating.</description><pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2009 18:29:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Madoff: SEC defends its role</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2009/01/27/news/economy/madoff_senate/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2009/01/27/news/economy/madoff_senate/index.htm</guid><description>The Securities and Exchange Commission's director of enforcement told a Senate committee Tuesday that the agency lacks the resources to pursue all the leads and tips about possible fraud that come to it.</description><pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2009 14:44:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Why the SEC is probing Steve Jobs</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2009/01/22/technology/stevejobs_disclosure.fortune/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2009/01/22/technology/stevejobs_disclosure.fortune/index.htm</guid><description>Apple and its CEO-on-leave-but-still-active-sort-of Steve Jobs practically forced the Securities and Exchange Commission to look into the adequacy of the company¹s disclosures about Jobs's medical problems. But the investigation may have less to do with Jobs's health than with the SEC's.</description><pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2009 22:02:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Madoff's trading fiction</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2009/01/22/news/companies/madoff_tradingfiction/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2009/01/22/news/companies/madoff_tradingfiction/index.htm</guid><description>As Bernard Madoff was telling his investors they were earning double-digit annual gains, it appears he wasn't even investing their money, according to a CNN investigation of his reported trades.</description><pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2009 20:59:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Madoff does Minneapolis</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2009/01/16/news/newsmakers/kansas_madoff.fortune/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2009/01/16/news/newsmakers/kansas_madoff.fortune/index.htm</guid><description>Tucked into the rolling hills of Hopkins, a suburb west of Minneapolis, the recently refurbished Oak Ridge Country Club looks much like a middle school: beige paneling, a limestone base, and energy-efficient windows. Along the main road to the club is a modest apartment complex with four signs advertising units for rent. Beyond Oak Ridge's modest doors, however, is a well-appointed interior that provides a gathering place for some of the wealthier families in the Twin Cities.</description><pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2009 14:36:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>U.S. loses another bid to jail Madoff</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2009/01/14/news/newsmakers/madoff_prosecutors/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2009/01/14/news/newsmakers/madoff_prosecutors/index.htm</guid><description>A judge rejected an appeal by prosecutors Wednesday in the government's continuing legal quest to put accused white-collar schemer Bernard Madoff behind bars.</description><pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2009 21:06:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Prosecutors press case to jail Madoff</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2009/01/13/news/newsmakers/madoff_bail_appeal/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2009/01/13/news/newsmakers/madoff_bail_appeal/index.htm</guid><description>Federal prosecutors are appealing a court's ruling that allows alleged fraud mastermind Bernard Madoff to remain under house arrest on $10 million bail.</description><pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2009 01:48:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Will Madoff's enablers get hard time?</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2009/01/07/news/madoff.fortune/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2009/01/07/news/madoff.fortune/index.htm</guid><description>Nice work if you can get it: Hanging out at the Palm Beach Country Club and introducing friends to an exclusive and seemingly safe place to stash your cash - Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities.</description><pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 23:08:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Madoff to remain under house arrest</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2009/01/12/news/newsmakers/madoff_judge_ruling/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2009/01/12/news/newsmakers/madoff_judge_ruling/index.htm</guid><description>A judge ruled Monday that Bernard Madoff would not be sent to jail pending trial, declining a request by prosecutors to revoke the bail of the financier accused in a $50 billion fraud case.</description><pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 18:24:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Congress looks for answers in Madoff scandal</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2009/01/05/news/companies/madoff_hearing/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2009/01/05/news/companies/madoff_hearing/index.htm</guid><description>Lawmakers took a hard look Monday at the alleged $50 billion investment scam engineered by Bernard Madoff that has sent shock waves across the nation's already fragile financial system.</description><pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 22:49:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>How much did Madoff scheme cost?</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2009/01/02/news/companies/madoff/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2009/01/02/news/companies/madoff/index.htm</guid><description>The Bernard Madoff scandal will certainly end up as the most expensive Ponzi scheme in U.S. history, but the $50 billion price tag claimed by the disgraced financier may end up as fictitious as the returns that he had promised investors.</description><pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:09:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Austria takes over bank hit by Madoff case</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/01/03/bernard.madoff.austria.bank/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/01/03/bernard.madoff.austria.bank/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>The Austrian government has taken control of a private bank with significant exposure to the alleged fraud by Bernard Madoff.</description><pubDate>Sat, 03 Jan 2009 10:17:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>A closer look at Madoff's web</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2008/12/19/news/newsmakers/madoff_network.fortune/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2008/12/19/news/newsmakers/madoff_network.fortune/index.htm</guid><description>It is not easy to stay on the sidelines while others are busy getting rich. Wall Street, moreover, is constitutionally predisposed to overdo things. The stereotype imagines a Wall Street populated by bulls and bears. In reality, the Street itself is neither bull nor bear but shark, constantly shifting direction in an eternal search for food. This feeding process involves massive shifts of capital, which inevitably, is sometimes misallocated.  - J. Ezra Merkin, writing in an introduction to a chapter in the 75th anniversary version of Graham and Dodd's Security Analysis.</description><pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2008 16:27:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Did Madoff act alone?</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2008/12/18/news/newsmakers/madoff_didnt_act_alone.fortune/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2008/12/18/news/newsmakers/madoff_didnt_act_alone.fortune/index.htm</guid><description>Like the conclusion that Lee Harvey Oswald was a lone gunman, the theory that Bernard Madoff acted alone is hard to swallow.</description><pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2008 18:50:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Madoff investors race to the courthouse</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2008/12/17/news/parloff_madoff.fortune/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2008/12/17/news/parloff_madoff.fortune/index.htm</guid><description>Victims of Bernard Madoff's alleged Ponzi scheme sued three big names over their role in the estimated $50 billion fraud: a high-profile investment firm, its managing partner and its auditor.</description><pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2008 16:33:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>One Madoff charity goes unscathed</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2008/12/17/news/companies/madoff_lymphoma.fortune/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2008/12/17/news/companies/madoff_lymphoma.fortune/index.htm</guid><description>The list of charities devastated by Bernard Madoff's alleged fraud keeps growing, but one philanthropic organization with strong ties to the Madoff family has so far emerged unscathed.</description><pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2008 20:56:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Ex-CEO of Broadcom Pleads Not Guilty on 21 Charges</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1815049,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1815049,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>Broadcom co-founder and billionaire Henry T. Nicholas III pleaded not guilty Monday to federal drug and securities fraud charges.</description><pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2008 20:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Supreme Court Denies Enron Hearing</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1705889,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1705889,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>The Supreme Court dealt a blow Tuesday to Enron investors who sued major investment banks to recover money lost when the Texas energy giant collapsed</description><pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2008 20:15:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Ginn being sued over breach of contract</title><link>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/racing/09/10/ginn.lawsuit.ap/index.html</link><guid>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/racing/09/10/ginn.lawsuit.ap/index.html</guid><description>CONCORD, N.C. (AP) -- Sterling Marlin, Joe Nemechek and two crew chiefs have filed breach of contract suits against Ginn Racing and Dale Earnhardt Inc.</description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2007 10:43:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Ex-Enron executive Rice reports to prison</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2007/07/31/news/newsmakers/enron_prison.reut/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2007/07/31/news/newsmakers/enron_prison.reut/index.htm</guid><description>The former CEO of Enron Corp.'s broadband division reported to a Louisiana prison on Tuesday to serve 27 months for securities fraud related to his role in the company's 2001 collapse, his lawyer said.</description><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jul 2007 08:07:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Securities fraud suits plunge</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2007/01/02/news/news_securities/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2007/01/02/news/news_securities/index.htm</guid><description>Class-action lawsuits filed over securities fraud reached an all-time low in 2006, according to a Stanford Law School report.</description><pubDate>Tue, 02 Jan 2007 15:10:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Apple says options probe clears Jobs</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2006/12/29/technology/apple_jobs/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2006/12/29/technology/apple_jobs/index.htm</guid><description>Apple Computer disclosed in a regulatory filing Friday that Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs was aware that some stock options granted to him and other executives at Apple between 1997 and 2002 were backdated and that the company was restating financial results for the past few years as a result of the backdating.</description><pubDate>Fri, 29 Dec 2006 14:03:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>FBI sees more indictments from backdating</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2006/10/12/news/companies/whitecollar_crime/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2006/10/12/news/companies/whitecollar_crime/index.htm</guid><description>More criminal indictments will come down the pike as corporate America struggles with the ever-growing stock options backdating scandal, according to an assistant director at the FBI.</description><pubDate>Thu, 12 Oct 2006 18:18:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Buffett sounds off on Wall Street scandals</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2006/10/10/news/newsmakers/buffett_scandals/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2006/10/10/news/newsmakers/buffett_scandals/index.htm</guid><description>As corporate scandals continue to mount on Wall Street, Berkshire Hathaway Chairman Warren Buffett has a message for the company's top managers: Don't give in to peer pressure.</description><pubDate>Tue, 10 Oct 2006 12:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>More execs face backdating day in court</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2006/08/10/news/companies/options_backdating/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2006/08/10/news/companies/options_backdating/index.htm</guid><description>The widespread options backdating scandal is gaining new momentum after the Department of Justice charged executives from Comverse Technology with securities fraud for profiting from manipulated stock options.</description><pubDate>Thu, 10 Aug 2006 13:51:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Lay's double shot at jail</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2006/05/12/news/newsmakers/lay_bench_trial/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2006/05/12/news/newsmakers/lay_bench_trial/index.htm</guid><description>The light at the end of the tunnel continues to be elusive for Enron founder Kenneth Lay who could find himself spending life in prison even if he is acquitted by a jury for allegations that he helped bring about Enron's collapse.</description><pubDate>Fri, 12 May 2006 13:57:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Ex-WorldCom official sentenced to prison</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2005/08/05/news/newsmakers/worldcom/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2005/08/05/news/newsmakers/worldcom/index.htm</guid><description>Former WorldCom accountant Betty Vinson was sentenced Friday morning to five months in prison and five months house arrest for her part in WorldCom's $11 billion accounting fraud.</description><pubDate>Fri, 05 Aug 2005 14:47:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Ebbers speaks out ahead of sentencing</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2005/07/12/news/newsmakers/ebbers_flight/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2005/07/12/news/newsmakers/ebbers_flight/index.htm</guid><description>Bernard Ebbers, the once-celebrated WorldCom chief who faces life behind bars, is baffled by his current predicament.</description><pubDate>Tue, 12 Jul 2005 19:21:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Ebbers: Wrong place, wrong time</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2005/07/08/news/newsmakers/ebbers_walkup/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2005/07/08/news/newsmakers/ebbers_walkup/index.htm</guid><description>Bernard Ebbers picked the wrong time to commit a crime.</description><pubDate>Fri, 08 Jul 2005 13:07:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Ex-Tyco CEO Kozlowski found guilty</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2005/06/17/news/newsmakers/tyco_trialoutcome/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2005/06/17/news/newsmakers/tyco_trialoutcome/index.htm</guid><description>In a major victory in the government crackdown on corporate corruption, former Tyco CEO Dennis Kozlowski and ex-CFO Mark Swartz were found guilty Friday of stealing hundreds of millions of dollars from the manufacturing conglomerate.</description><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jun 2005 18:32:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Andersen conviction overturned</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2005/05/31/news/midcaps/scandal_andersen_scotus/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2005/05/31/news/midcaps/scandal_andersen_scotus/index.htm</guid><description>The Supreme Court Tuesday unanimously threw out the conviction of accounting firm Arthur Andersen, a symbolic victory for a nearly defunct company torn apart in a document-shredding case involving the fallen energy giant Enron.</description><pubDate>Tue, 31 May 2005 14:41:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Ex-WorldCom CEO Ebbers guilty</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2005/03/15/news/newsmakers/ebbers/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2005/03/15/news/newsmakers/ebbers/index.htm</guid><description>Bernard Ebbers, the former CEO of WorldCom, was found guilty Tuesday for his role in the huge accounting scandal that led to the largest bankruptcy in U.S. history.</description><pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2005 17:15:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Stocks rally, but investors still sue</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2005/01/04/news/fortune500/yir04_securities/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2005/01/04/news/fortune500/yir04_securities/index.htm</guid><description>The better stocks perform, the fewer disgruntled investors there are suing companies over falling stock prices, right?</description><pubDate>Tue, 04 Jan 2005 10:54:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Ebbers indicted, ex-CFO pleads guilty</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2004/03/02/technology/ebbers/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2004/03/02/technology/ebbers/index.htm</guid><description>Ex-WorldCom CEO Bernard Ebbers was charged with securities fraud Tuesday for his role in the nation's biggest accounting scandal, while his former chief financial officer pleaded guilty and agreed to cooperate with prosecutors.</description><pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2004 11:20:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Skilling indicted for fraud</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2004/02/19/news/companies/skilling/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2004/02/19/news/companies/skilling/index.htm</guid><description>Ex-Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling was charged with fraud and insider trading Thursday, making him the highest ranking former executive charged in the collapse of the once-mighty energy company.</description><pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2004 10:55:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Toothless Tigers Pols talk tough on corporate crime             but offer weak measures.</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/2002/09/01/327277/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/2002/09/01/327277/index.htm</guid><description>Investor confidence continues to erode, despite new legislation to restore corporate responsibility and accountability, and the markets appear to be well on their way to a third straight yearly dec...</description><pubDate>Sun, 01 Sep 2002 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>The King of Pain Is Hurting Loathed because he's so             mean, feared because he's so powerful, Bill Lerach is the       </title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2000/09/04/286801/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2000/09/04/286801/index.htm</guid><description>In a huge office with a marble-topped bar and a perfect view of San Diego Harbor, paunchy, red-faced, Brillo-topped Bill Lerach--wearing a pitted-out green shirt, khaki slacks, white socks, and Top...</description><pubDate>Mon, 04 Sep 2000 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Lies, Damned Lies, and Managed Earnings The crackdown             is here. The nation's top earnings cop has put corporate      </title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1999/08/02/263614/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1999/08/02/263614/index.htm</guid><description>Someplace right now, in the layers of a FORTUNE 500 company, An employee--probably high up and probably helped by people who work for him--is perpetrating an accounting fraud. Down the road that cr...</description><pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 1999 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>BEATING BOLDER CORPORATE CROOKS Watch out -- dishonest employees are grabbing new opportunities to rob your company. Stopping th</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1988/04/25/70460/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1988/04/25/70460/index.htm</guid><description>THE CROOKS in your company have never been so tempted. 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