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  SEC Enforcement: Oil Firm Busted for Bribing Iran Official; Goldman VP Settles Pay-to-Play Charge

  By Marlene Y. Satter, AdvisorOne  |  May 30, 2013

  Among recent actions by the SEC were charges against a French oil and gas company for bribery and against a Dallas-based trader for front-running. Also, a former Goldman Sachs vice president agreed to settle earlier pay-to-play charges.

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  N.Y. to Sue BofA, Wells Fargo Over Mortgage Settlement

  By Janet Levaux, AdvisorOne  |  May 6, 2013

  Attorney General Schneiderman says his office has close to 340 cases of homeowners who were “put at risk” by the banks violations of settlement terms

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  SEC Enforcement Roundup: Ralph Lauren Corp. Admits to Bribing Argentine Officials

  By Marlene Y. Satter, AdvisorOne  |  April 25, 2013

  Recent actions include a nonprosecution agreement with Ralph Lauren Corp. in a bribery case and the halting of an immigration scheme.

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  Top 12 Tax Scams: IRS’ Dirty Dozen for 2013

  By Michael S. Fischer  |  March 27, 2013

  The IRS is onto these fraudsters, from sophisticated computer scammers to opportunists posting fliers on church bulletin boards.

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  Obama Nominates Perez for Labor Secretary

  By Melanie Waddell, AdvisorOne  |  March 18, 2013

  President Barack Obama on Monday nominated Tom Perez, head of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, as the next Labor secretary.

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  Top 10 Tax Cheats: the Big, the Bad & the Weird

  By Dan Berman, AdvisorOne  |  March 5, 2013

  From the infamous Al Capone to our top choice (you won’t believe what job he held before his conviction), these 10 learned the lesson the hard way—and some learned it repeatedly.

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  S&P Lawsuit Raises Questions About Feds’ Motivations

  By John Sullivan, AdvisorOne  |  February 6, 2013

  Questions are being raised as to why only S&P is targeted in the suit, since it could be said that Fitch and Moody’s assigned inflated ratings as well.

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  S&P Expects Federal Lawsuit Over Mortgage Ratings

  By MARCY GORDON, AP BUSINESS WRITER  |  February 4, 2013

  The U.S. government is expected to file civil charges against S&P, alleging that it fraudulently gave high ratings to mortgage debt that later plunged in value and helped fuel the 2008 financial crisis.

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  A Broker Who Broke Bad

  By Jane Wollman Rusoff  |  January 23, 2013

  Serving nearly 400 days in federal prison wasn’t what Justin M. Paperny had in mind when he became a stockbroker fresh out of the University of Southern California, psychology degree in hand.

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  SEC Enforcement Roundup: BP to Pay Third Largest Penalty in SEC History

  By Marlene Y. Satter, AdvisorOne  |  November 16, 2012

  As part of the $4.5 billion settlement with the U.S., BP admitted to misleading investors about the rate of the oil flow in the Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010.