Browsing: Financial Fraud
A $400 million lawsuit against UBS is designed to punish banks who throw employees to the wolves
In August 2015, former UBS banker Tom Hayes sat in a London courtroom after being found guilty of eight counts…
Forget the golden age of fraud, the billionaire investor who shorted Enron warns we might be in the ‘diamond or platinum level’ amid the AI boom
In 2020, billionaire short-seller Jim Chanos told the Financial Times we were in the “golden age of fraud,” a result,…
Sam Altman says financial industry faces a massive ‘fraud crisis’ as AI impersonates people’s voices to trick security
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman warned the financial industry of a “significant impending fraud crisis” because of the ability of artificial…
Fake charity tycoon pleads guilty to siphoning millions from veterans and cancer patients
A Las Vegas man pleaded guilty Tuesday to a federal criminal charge alleging that he duped people into donating tens…
Twenty-three years after Enron declared bankruptcy, little has changed regarding the culture of whistleblowing and the reporting of internal fraud.…
Vietnam’s ‘blazing furnace’ sees real estate mogul sentenced to death for $12 billion fraud. It’s the biggest eruption yet in Asia’s volcanic housing bust
Vietnamese real estate tycoon Truong My Lan has been sentenced to death by a Vietnam court for her involvement in…
Sam Bankman-Fried claims his autism spectrum disorder means he’s ‘uniquely vulnerable’ and so he shouldn’t go to prison for 100 years
In a last-ditch effort to get a more lenient sentence, lawyers for disgraced CEO Sam Bankman-Fried are citing his autism…









