"wrong direction?"" Libby was eventually pardoned by President Donald Trump on April 13, 2018. Miller supported the pardon in an op-ed and said that Fitzgerald's prosecution of Libby was overzealous and politically motivated. On November 17, 2005, Fitzgerald brought criminal fraud charges against former Canadian media mogul, Conrad Black, as well as against three other Hollinger executives. The trial of Lord Black began at the Federal Court in Chicago in March 2007. Black was convicted on July 13, 2007 and later sentenced to serve 78 months in federal prison, pay Hollinger $6.1 million and a fine of $125,000. On February"
"openly until the time of the book's publication and is still never mentioned within the column. Martin Lukes was arrested for insider trading on 17 December 2007, very soon after becoming CEO. No further columns were published for a few weeks, with an ""out of office"" auto reply in the FT each Thursday. On 23 January 2008 it was reported that he was convicted and sentenced to two years in prison. A number of spoof articles were published reporting this as if it were fact. The column's website reported on this date that the column ran from 1999 to December"
"earning and was sentenced to 18 months in prison for stock fraud. In 1979, a federal jury convicted Randell of mail and stock fraud for his involvement with the National Commercial Credit Corp, a new fraud he perpetrated (with deputy assistant secretary of labor, John B. Mumford) while Cortes was still serving time from his first conviction! He was sentenced to seven years in prison, and released in 1984. In 1984, Randell became president of Federal News Service. He later became president and chairman of the board of directors of United Savings Club, a company featuring consumer discounts, which was"
"of investor fraud in the range of $25–30 million. In June, 2017, she pled guilty of having defrauded investors by falsifying the company's bank accounts, making Pokeware appear to be in better financial condition than it was. Over a million dollars in investor money was spent on Liburdi's personal life. On September 29, 2017, Liburdi was sentenced to 49 months in prison followed three years of supervised release, and ordered to repay the $7 million and to forfeit another $7 million. Maryse Liburdi Maryse Liburdi (formerly Maryse Thomas) is the former Chairman and CEO of Pokeware, a technology company and"
"were accused and some convicted of pulling it off provided a glimpse into the gift-giving and favor-swapping common between private business and top government officials in the Dominican Republic. The first trial ended in September 2007. On October 21, 2007, Báez Figueroa was sentenced by a three-judge panel to 10 years in prison. Additionally, he was ordered to pay restitution and damages totalling RD$63 billion. The laundering charges were excluded, but the other suspected mastermind of the fraud, Luis Alvarez Renta, was convicted and sentenced to 10 years in prison for money laundering. Marcos Báez Cocco, ex-vicepresident of the Bank,"
"the $200 million scam. Stein Bagger Stein Bagger (born January 20, 1967) is a Danish convicted criminal, former entrepreneur, former CEO of IT Factory. Before bankruptcy of IT Factory and a subsequent fraud scandal, he was named ""Danish Entrepreneur of the Year"" by Ernst & Young, and his company was named ""Denmark's best IT company"" two years in a row by the magazine Computerworld. On the 11 June, 2009, Stein Bagger was sentenced to a seven-year prison sentence. He was released on license on 24 March, 2014, having served approximately 5 years of his sentence. Bagger disappeared on 27 November,"
"""Fortune"" also reported that ""[b]efore the case was over, the bankruptcy judge, Gropper, found that Amanat executed fraudulent conveyances, deceived creditors, and backdated documents."" In July 2016 Amanat was arrested as part of the conspiracy case against former technology IPTV company KIT Digital. Prosecutors asserted that Amanat with Kaleil Isaza Tuzman, Stephen E. Maiden and an unnamed individual used an investment vehicle controlled by Tuzman to purchase KIT Digital shares. Maiden was sentenced in February 2015 to seven years in prison on a separate matter; Tuzman served time in prison in Colombia and was extradited to the U.S. to face"
"request. His trial opened on October 7, 2013 . On December 8, 2014, Bonventre was sentenced to 10 years in prison after being convicted on securities fraud and tax-evasion charges for his involvement in Madoff's $17.5 billion fraud. Joann Crupi is a former investment advisor to Madoff. Her trial was to open on Oct 7, 2013. A jury found her guilty, and on December 15, 2014 Crupi was sentenced to 6 years in prison for her role in the scam. George Perez is a former computer programmer of Madoff. His trial was to open on Oct 7, 2013. A jury"
"the Romanian Post to a private company at a price that was €3.6 million lower than the market price, being sentenced to 4 years, suspended sentence. In January 2015 he was sentenced to 4 years of prison . Zsolt Nagy (politician) Zsolt Nagy (born June 21, 1971 in Târgu Mureș) is a Romanian politician of Hungarian ethnicity. Since December 2004, he is the Minister for Communications and Information Technology, but he was suspended on June 11, 2007 due to an investigation regarding some strategic privatisations. He is also a member of the Democratic Union of Hungarians in Romania, which is"
"in prison. On his way out of the courthouse, Toye, 79, was photographed twice attacking a news photographer with his cane. On September 7, 2011, William and Beryl Toye plead guilty to mail fraud charges and were sentenced to two-years probation and ordered to pay $426,393 in restitution to the victims of the fraud. Robert Lucky was also convicted of mail fraud in January 2012 and was sentenced to 25 months in prison and a restitution of $326,893. An additional three-year supervised release period and 200 hours of community service is to follow Lucky's incarceration. William J. Toye William James"
"largest case of accounting fraud in the country's history. After the accounting scandal was uncovered, Silverman and the Cendant board forced Forbes’ resignation and Silverman assumed the CEO post. In March 2001, Forbes and Shelton were indicted by a federal grand jury and sued by the Securities and Exchange Commission, which accused the company of directing the massive accounting fraud that ultimately cost the company and its investors billions of dollars. Mr. Shelton served 8 of his 10-year prison sentence before being released early for exemplary behavior. Former CEO Walter Forbes was sentenced to 12 years in prison in 2007."
"count of major fraud, amongst other charges. Both Osorio and Toll also face fraud charges by the SEC for violations of federal securities laws. Federal prosecutors said that Osorio defrauded investors from 2007 to 2010, exaggerating the company's finances and pocketing millions of dollars to fund a lavish lifestyle. The SEC claimed that Osorio had illegally used investor money to pay for a Miami Beach mansion, a Maserati car and a Colorado mountain retreat home. In 2013 he was sentenced to 12 1/2 years in jail for fraud. Former Gov. Jeb Bush has agreed to return $270,000 out of $469,000"
"hearing took place on January 20, 2016. All charges against Agrama and five others were dropped, while Mediaset CEO Pier-Silvio Berlusconi and Chairman Fedele Confalonieri were sentenced to 14 months imprisonment. The Mediaset trial was launched in April 2005, with indictment of 14 persons (including Silvio Berlusconi and Agrama) for having committed: (A) false accounting and embezzlement in order to mask payments of substantial ""black funds"", committed in 1988–94. (B) tax fraud equal in total to more than €62 million (120bn lira), committed in 1988–98. Both indictments were related to achievement of personal tax evasion, through illicit trade of movie"
"equivalent of USD 690,000 to the football club and the Romanian state. On the 26th of March 2014, a Romanian court sentenced him to 4 years in prison for fraud, in a case regarding the sale of several commercial venues to the Romanian State Lottery. George Copos Gheorghe (George) Copos (; born 27 March 1953, in Tăşnad, Satu Mare County) is a Romanian businessman and politician. A graduate of the communist cadres' training school Ștefan Gheorghiu Academy, he was in his youth a leader of the Union of Communist Youth. He is the owner of a chain of confectionery shops,"
"McCormick, the founder of the company which made the ADE651, was convicted of three counts of fraud at the Old Bailey in London, and was subsequently sentenced to ten years imprisonment. The owner of the company which made the GT200, Gary Bolton, was also convicted on 26 July 2013 on two charges of fraud and subsequently jailed for seven years. Caroline Hawley Caroline Hawley (born 1967, Nigeria) is a British journalist who has been a Special Correspondent for the BBC News channel since 2007. Hawley is a daughter of British diplomat Sir Donald Hawley. She was educated at Wycombe Abbey"
"which lead up to the fraud and how it was carried out and hidden from the bank's authorities. It is published by Gill and Macmillan. John Rusnak John Rusnak is a former currency trader at Allfirst bank, then part of AIB Group, in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. On January 17, 2003 he was sentenced to 7½ years in prison for hiding US$691 million in losses at the bank in 2002, after bad bets snowballed in one of the largest ever cases of bank fraud. He was transferred from prison to a halfway house in June 2008, to home confinement in"
"had paid Mulcaire £12,300 in cash between 9 November 2005 and 7 August 2006, using the code name Alexander on his expenses sheet for him. The court heard that Mulcaire had also hacked into the messages of supermodel Elle Macpherson, publicist Max Clifford, MP Simon Hughes, football agent Sky Andrew, and Gordon Taylor. On 26 January 2007, both Goodman and Mulcaire pleaded guilty to the charges and were sentenced to four and six months imprisonment respectively. On the same day, Andy Coulson resigned as editor of the ""News of the World"", while insisting that he had no knowledge of any"
"politics of envy"". He argued that the legal proceedings had ruined Black's financial status and reputation before any finding of guilt, and further asserted that the regulatory state created by Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal was ultimately responsible for this situation. In the same article, Velshi wrote that Black ""hearkened back to the good old days of grand newspaper proprietors, family dynasties and concern for the value of the brand rather than vulgar things like day-to-day movements in share prices"". Black was subsequently convicted of obstruction of justice and diverting company funds for his personal benefit, and was sentenced 78 months"
"in exchange for public works contracts. The scheme used the Palau de la Música Catalana concert venue as a front for false invoicing. Twelve people were jailed and fined millions. The former CDC treasurer Daniel Osàcar was sentenced to four years and five months in prison and fined €3.7 million for influence peddling and money laundering. Fèlix Millet, the former director of the Palau, was jailed for just under 10 years and fined €4.1 million and his deputy, Jordi Montull, received a 7 years and six months sentence and was fined €2.9 million. Millet and Montull were the individuals who"
"journalist on ""The Nation"" newspaper on May 5, 1988. He reported on parliament news for two years and then government news for two years. In 1992 he was in the editorial branch as an assistant to the chief political journalist. In 1994 he was promoted to chief political journalist. Then he worked as a deputy managing editor of the Nation newspaper. He is also the chairman of Raisom company and Chadtoichadkum company. On August 29, 2017 he was sentenced to 13 years and four months from the case he cheated on the ads of MCOT since 2004. On June 3,"
"the pinnacle of the business world."" He was the government's first cooperator and most important witness ""in two of the most important securities fraud trials in history"" against close friends and business partners Raj Rajaratnam, the billionaire founder of the Galleon Group family of hedge funds, and Rajat Gupta, the former head of McKinsey and Company and a board member of Goldman Sachs and Procter and Gamble. Rajaratnam and Gupta were both convicted in separate high-profile criminal trials. He was sentenced in 2012 by Judge Denny Chin to two years of probation in exchange for testimony against former friends Rajanatram"
"commenced in the fraud case. On December 6, 2017, he was found guilty of conspiracy to commit bank and wire fraud, bank fraud, wire fraud and visa fraud in the U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York. His lawyer has stated he intends to appeal. Sentencing was scheduled for March 9, 2018. Thereafter on December 10, 2017, the Sunday Times of London disseminated online two contemporaneous articles with one headlined - Fraudster, Raheem Brennerman faces 90 years in jail. On May 29, 2018, following an investigation into the criminal cases, Forbes released a publication headlined - Businessman convicted in"
"largest Ponzi schemes in history."" Steven Hoffenberg Steven Hoffenberg is the chairman of Towersinvestors.com,a financial services company and the online newspaper, Postpublishing.buzz. In 1995 Hoffenberg pleaded guilty to bilking investors out of $475 million. In 1997 Judge Robert W. Sweet sentenced him to 20 years in prison, plus a $1 million fine and $463 million in restitution. He settled a civil suit with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for $60 million. Hoffenberg is currently paying back all of the above investors debt. He was the owner of the New York Post. At the time the SEC considered the fraud"
"Corp. Clifford pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud, and was sentenced in December 2003 to 46 months in prison. His brother Paul was convicted of wire fraud, transportation of stolen securities, and conspiracy to defraud and was sentenced to 78 months in prison. Clifford Noe died shortly after the sentencing. Kwitny, Jonathan. ""The Fountain Pen Conspiracy"". Alfred A. Knopf. 1973. Clifford Noe Clifford Dixon Noe (aka Dr. Noe; aka Clif Goldstein after 1991) (1930 - 2004) was an international conman and swindler. He specialized in using bogus companies, forged securities, and fictitious offshore accounts to swindle investors. He"
"the Collegiate Court decided to postpone the first hearing for May 19, 2006, accepting a motion by the defense lawyers. On October 21, 2007, after the long trial that concluded on September, Báez Figueroa was sentenced by a three-judge panel to 10 years in prison. Additionally, he was ordered to pay restitution and damages totalling more than $31 million. The laundering charges were excluded, but another suspected mastermind of the fraud, financier Luis Álvarez Renta, was convicted and sentenced for money laundering to 10 years in prison. Marcos Báez Cocco, ex-vicepresident of the Bank, was also found guilty, but his"
"(2.8 million) of about 90 companies, including ACC and Hindalco, through forged share transfer forms. The total value of the shares was placed at . Mehta made a brief comeback as a stock market guru, giving tips on his own website as well as a weekly newspaper column. However, in September 1999, Bombay High Court convicted and sentenced him to five years rigorous imprisonment and a fine of . On 14 January 2003, Supreme Court of India confirmed High Court's judgement. It was a 2:1 majority judgement. While Justice B.N. Agrawal and Justice Arijit Pasayat upheld his conviction, Justice M.B."
"the company. Investors and taxpayers alike were hit hard when the company went bankrupt. While Pol Hauspie pleaded guilty, Jo Lernout denied any wrongdoing, claiming that the company has been a victim of a ""CIA conspiracy"". On September 20, 2010, co-founders Jo Lernout and Pol Hauspie, as well as Nico Willaert, former vice chairman, and Gaston Bastiaens, former chief executive officer, were each sentenced to five years prison (of which three years effective and two years probationary) for fraud by the Ghent Court of Appeals. In September 2012 Jo Lernout began a one-year sentence of house arrest with an electronic"
"Steven Hoffenberg Steven Hoffenberg is the chairman of Towersinvestors.com,a financial services company and the online newspaper, Postpublishing.buzz. In 1995 Hoffenberg pleaded guilty to bilking investors out of $475 million. In 1997 Judge Robert W. Sweet sentenced him to 20 years in prison, plus a $1 million fine and $463 million in restitution. He settled a civil suit with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for $60 million. Hoffenberg is currently paying back all of the above investors debt. He was the owner of the New York Post. At the time the SEC considered the fraud to be ""one of the"
"the release had been conclusively debunked, trading resumed on Emulex and the share price recovered almost immediately to close at $105.75. The FBI traced the release to Mark Jakob, who had realized a profit of more than $240,000 by shorting the stock. Jakob pled guilty and was sentenced to 44 months in prison, forfeiting the gains and owing an additional $103,000 in penalties. Jakob's fraud cost Emulex shareholders almost $110 million. Emulex hoax The Emulex hoax, an instance of securities fraud, was perpetrated by 23-year-old Mark Jakob on August 24, 2000. Jakob, a former employee of the press release distribution"
"BBC News ""Two former directors of Derby County football club have been found guilty of fraudulently claiming thousands of pounds in ""commission"". Andrew Mackenzie and Murdo Mackay claimed cash totalling £440,625 after brokering a loan for the club. Former finance director Mackenzie, 55, and ex-director of football Mackay, 53, used a £15m loan as a ""carrot""."" On 20 July 2009, Mackay and Mackenzie were both sentenced to 3 years in prison by Judge Alexander at Northampton Crown Court. Murdo Mackay Murdo Mackay (born 1956) is a Scottish businessman and sports agent. He worked as director of football at Derby County"
"was alleged Stanford had intercepted emails between Dame Shirley Porter and John Porter (Chairman of Redbus Interhouse). In 2007, ""News of the World"" royal editor Clive Goodman was sentenced to four months in jail for intercepting the voicemail of members of the Royal Family. His associate Glenn Mulcaire received a six-month sentence. In 2007, Operation Barbatus exposed a sophisticated criminal surveillance business organised by corrupt police officers. A former Metropolitan Police officer, Jeremy Young, was jailed for 27 months for various offences including six counts of conspiracy to intercept communications unlawfully. A second former policeman, Scott Gelsthorpe, was sentenced to"
"Berlusconi's Fininvest. In 1995, after receiving some proclamations, the judiciary started investigating the authenticity of the ruling. It turned out that Berlusconi won thanks to the corruption of Judge Vittorio Metta. Metta was sentenced to 11 years in prison in 2003, but won an appeal in 2005. The Court of Cassation nullified that appeal in 2006, and Vittorio Metta was sentenced to 1 year and 9 months in 2007. Berlusconi has not been sentenced. The trial expired for time limit. The group today includes several distinct publishing houses, a number of which have more than one imprint: Rizzoli Rizzoli Education"
"KIT Digital CEO. Tuzman and Amanat had been accused of conspiring to inflate KIT's trading volume and share price between 2008 and 2011 in an effort to hide their devastating losses. The verdict came after 6 weeks of trial. Three government witnesses who pleaded guilty, including two former KIT executives and a disgraced hedge-fund founder, told jurors of related frauds being directed by Tuzman and Amanat in an effort to hide their disastrous investment losses. Amanat has been a board member of Human Rights Watch, Malaria No More, The Acumen Fund and the Ad Council and worked as a spokesman"