Securities fraud litigation bubbles up with the oil in the Bakken. For example, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York[1] was presented with the question whether defendant Eric Dany, an established stock commentator with his own “Stock Prospector” brand and newsletter, could be held responsible under the SEC’s Rule 10b-5 as...Read More

Insider trading – in rough terms, using a company’s confidential information to make money trading its stock – is a well-known white-collar crime. In some instances, insider trading is pretty obvious. The Department of Justice alleges a doctor running a clinical trial of a drug for a company sold his stock in that company after...Read More