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Bitcoins Seized From Silk Road Marketplace To Be Auctioned
June 13th, 2014
The United States government is planning to sell one of the biggest caches of bitcoins, a hoard that’s part of the bitcoin cache seized in October from the Silk Road marketplace, which was used for buying and selling drugs, ...
Facebook, Google Balk at Loophole in Bill to Rein in NSA
May 22nd, 2014
A group of technology companies, including Facebook Inc. (FB), Google Inc. (GOOG) and Apple Inc. (AAPL), said the bill U.S. lawmakers plan to vote on today to limit National Security Agency spying doesn’t go far enough. The legislation “has ...
SEC charges brokerage firm
April 15th, 2014
The US Securities and Exchange Commission has announced another round of charges in its ongoing case against several individuals involved in a massive kickback scheme to secure the bond trading business of a state-owned Venezuelan bank. The SEC alleges ...
NY bank regulator Lawsky seeks documents from Credit Suisse: source
April 7th, 2014
Benjamin Lawsky, New York’s financial services superintendent, has sought documents from Credit Suisse to examine whether Switzerland’s second-biggest bank lied to New York authorities about engineering tax shelters, said a source familiar with the matter. Switzerland’s private banking model ...
Credit Suisse Restates Fourth-Quarter Loss on U.S. Tax Provision
April 3rd, 2014
Credit Suisse Group (CSGN) AG, the second-biggest Swiss bank, restated its fourth-quarter loss after taking additional provisions related to the U.S. probe into whether the bank helped Americans evade taxes. The net loss amounted to 476 million Swiss francs ...
Billionaire Sought by U.S. Holds Key to Putin Gas Cash
March 24th, 2014
A detained billionaire who made a fortune as a middleman in Russia’s murky gas trade with Ukraine may hold the key for U.S. lawmakers seeking harsher sanctions against President Vladimir Putin’s inner circle. Ukrainian Dmitry Firtash, arrested in Vienna ...
