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Feds: New York brokers steal millions in scamALBANY — Timothy McGinn and David Smith, investment brokers for 30 years, were charged with fraud in a federal indictment that accuses them of raiding at least $8 million from investors' accounts to support extravagant lifestyles. - Times Union - 1/27/2012
FBI searches New York Global Group(Bloomberg) -- Federal agents searched the Manhattan office of reverse merger advisory firm New York Global Group, an FBI spokesman said. - BusinessWeek - 1/27/2012
Texas lawyer still faces securities fraud in Exobox caseHOUSTON -- Defendants in the Southern District of Texas case are: Exobox Technologies, Robert Sonfield, Donald Bradley, Jeffrey Bradley, Jason Landess, Marc Lane, Roger Brewer and Alexanderia Blankenship. - Courthouse News - 1/27/2012
Mets owners say they never suspected Madoff was running Ponzi schemeThe New York Mets’ owners asked a judge to dismiss $386 million in remaining claims brought by the trustee liquidating Bernard Madoff’s firm, saying their “early faith” in Madoff was well-founded because of his reputation. - Bloomberg - 1/27/2012
Stanford witness tells of life in pressure cookerHOUSTON -- "We got to hold our clients' hands. ... We have to stay calm," Stanford told his sales staff in 2008. Jurors saw a video of that Miami gathering during the testimony of Jason Green, a former director of Stanford Group in Baton Rouge. - Chron.com - 1/27/2012
Stanford tells of $5.5B cash pile on videoHOUSTON -- Allen Stanford told executives that Stanford International Bank had $5.5 billion in excess cash in October 2008, despite receiving warnings that the bank was running out of cash, according to a video played at his criminal trial. - FT.com - 1/27/2012
Justice unit to probe mortgage-backed securitiesWASHINGTON — A new Justice Department fraud-fighting unit will bring together prosecutors and federal and state investigators focusing on one of the factors of the financial crisis — the collapse of residential mortgage-backed securities. - WSJ.com - 1/27/2012
SEC drops 'supervisor' case against ex-general counselThe order by a divided Commission ended the agency's controversial action against Theodore Urban, once general counsel of the former Ferris Baker Watts LLC, a brokerage and investment bank, now part of RBC Wealth Management. - Reuters - 1/27/2012
Chinese company accused of fraud puts critics on notice Deer Consumer Products, listed on NASDAQ, diversified its response: in the U.S. it sued Alfred Little, a pseudonym used by one of the short sellers who had accused it of fraud; and in China it began harassing and intimidating the investigators. - TheEpochTimes - 1/27/2012
SEC alleges Latvian trader hijacked accountsSAN FRANCISCO -- The charges allege that Ivan Nagaicevs hijacked a number of online brokerage accounts and conducted unauthorised trades in stocks in which he already owned positions through separate trading accounts. - FT.com - 1/27/2012
Troubled life settlement fund may get reprieve despite bid collapseLife settlement specialist Insetco is ready to renew talks with troubled life settlement vehicle ARM Asset Backed Securities, despite abandoning its bid to take over the struggling fund. [Tag: Rockingham Retirement] - CityWire.co.uk - 1/27/2012
Don't use our software, security firm Symantec warns customersSymantec is advising customers to disable one of its products, after hackers revealed the theft of the code behind the remote access package pcAnywhere, which could allow malicious users to gain complete access to systems and data. - Fox News - 1/27/2012
IRS warns of tax refund delaysThe Internal Revenue Service warned that tax refunds could be delayed a week this tax season because of new anti-fraud safeguards. - Accounting Today - 1/27/2012
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Allstate Financial Services, LLC [CRD 18272] and Morrissey, Roxanne M. [CRD 5335151]
Notice of Service on the Administrator and Affidavit of Compliance; Notice of Opportunity for Hearing on Enforcement Division Recommendation    Filed: 1/27/2012
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