Thomas Penfield Jackson, who died of cancer on 16 June at the age of 76, was a federal judge in Washington who presided over a Microsoft antitrust case and ordered the software giant to be split up. He also presided over the the drug possession trial of the former Mayor of Washington, Marion Barry.
Tuesday 27 March 2012
Coutts, the bank famed for handling the finances of the Queen and around half the England football team, was fined £8.75 million for "serious, systemic" money-laundering failures yesterday.
Tuesday 27 March 2012
Coutts, the bank famed for handling the finances of the Queen and around half the England football team, was fined £8.75m for "serious, systemic" money-laundering failures yesterday.
Wednesday 21 March 2012
A smokers' group has slammed the duty increase on duty on tobacco products as a “smugglers' charter”.
Wednesday 21 March 2012
The US soldier accused of murdering 16 Afghan civilians in this month's unprovoked shooting spree was $1.5 million (£950,000), in debt and in danger of losing his home, according to reports yesterday.
Monday 12 March 2012
Ricardo Teixeira today stood down as head of the Brazilian Football Federation and the 2014 World Cup organising committee on health grounds.
Friday 09 March 2012
More than 200 animals, including kangaroos, flamingos, red pandas and white lions, were seized from a private zoo 60 miles north of Bangkok yesterday.
Friday 09 March 2012
The former finance director of Royal Liver, the mutual life assurer, has been fined £109,000 and barred from working in financial services ever again by the City regulator.
Wednesday 29 February 2012
The FBI has enlisted an unlikely ally in its fight against insider trading and securities fraud: Gordon Gekko, the villainous executive from 1987 movie Wall Street, who told an audience of potential investors: "Greed, for want of a better word, is good."
Monday 20 February 2012
Santander has been fined £1.5 million for failing to make clear to customers that some of its products had only limited cover under a compensation scheme.
Saturday 18 February 2012
US Outlook: John Kinnucan was briefly hailed a hero by the hedge-fund industry, for standing up to the FBI, refusing to turn snitch on his clients and refusing to wear a wire to help the Feds' investigation into insider trading. That was back in 2010, when the investigation was just getting going and a furious Mr Kinnucan went public to reveal the FBI's tactics and damn it as a witch-hunt.
Thursday 09 February 2012
Yesterday's not-guilty verdict in the tax evasion case brought against Harry Redknapp was warmly greeted by the football world, and understandably so. Mr Redknapp is the hugely engaging, talented boss of a resurgent Tottenham Hotspur, and looks well placed to succeed Fabio Capello at the England helm.
Thursday 26 January 2012
David Einhorn, the brash American hedge fund manager famed for taking huge, aggressive bets against companies' share prices, has been slapped with a £7.2m fine for insider trading in the British pubs group Punch Taverns.
Sunday 22 January 2012
Allen Stanford, the one-time billionaire financier, will finally go to court this week accused of running a $7bn Ponzi scheme.
Friday 20 January 2012
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