Gary Shapiro News
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A former Chicago White Sox scout, Jorge Oquendo Rivera, was sentenced to a year and a day in prison for his role in a scheme to take kickbacks from signing bonuses paid by the team to Latin American prospects.
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Banks and brokers face a clampdown on using assets they hold for clients as collateral for their own trades as part of European Union moves to bolster market stability and rein in shadow banking.
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Latham & Watkins LLP’s Zachary Fardon was nominated by President Obama to be U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois in Chicago. He would replace Patrick Fitzgerald, who left last June and joined Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP.
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A Taiwanese man with ties to North Korea who the U.S. called a proliferator of weapons of mass destruction in 2009 and his Chicago-area son were charged with trying to evade federal laws curbing the spread of such weapons, prosecutors said.
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A U.S. citizen accused of attempting to join an al-Qaeda ally in Syria was ordered confined to his parents’ home with electronic monitoring while he awaits trial.
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Rob McKenna, Washington State’s former attorney general, joined Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP as a partner in Seattle and co-chairman of the firm’s public policy group.
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William Mastro, a sports memorabilia auctioneer, was indicted by a U.S. grand jury for defrauding bidders through actions that included hiding alterations to a rare Honus Wagner baseball card.
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A hotel operator who prosecutors said defrauded more than 7,000 investors in a $500 million Ponzi scheme was sentenced in Chicago to five years in prison after pleading guilty to securities fraud.
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An Illinois man was indicted for two terrorism-related crimes arising from a Federal Bureau of Investigation sting operation in which he was given fake explosives to detonate in downtown Chicago.
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Former MF Global Holdings Ltd. Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Jon S. Corzine helped accelerate the futures brokerage’s demise with risky business strategies and mismanagement, according to a report by bankruptcy trustee Louis Freeh.
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