Tag Archive 'fraud'

The Stanford Group Fraud

Lance on Mar 07 2009 | Filed under: Advisory services, Baton Rouge News, Personal Finance

I have had a problem with the  Stanford Group, and the “CD’s” they were pushing, for several years now. No need to explain why at this point. Anyway, this has hit Baton Rouge extremely hard. I don’t believe in relative terms (outside of Antigua itself) any other community had a larger exposure to Stanford than [...]

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The Fraud Unseen

Lance on Jan 26 2008 | Filed under: Risk

So, we now have a new record for trader fraudulently losing billions on bad trades. Nick Leeson will soon join the 1972 Dolphins as great, but behind by the numbers. Just like then I have a niggling thought in the back of my mind, and so does Adam at Adams Options:
So some trader at Societe [...]

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