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May 3, 2012
Feds Say Brothers Conned Millions from Trinity Christian Academy Teachers and Parents
There are few certainties in life, but this is one of them: If a person offers you a thousand percent return on an investment, you have on your hands a scam. And there's about a thousand percent chance someone will end up in court. Yet two brothers, Terry Wiese of Little Elm and Scott Wiese of Tem ... More >>
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March 25, 2011
In Dallas Federal Court, Those Swindled by Allen Stanford Sue SEC For Failing to Stop Him
R. Allen StanfordSpencer Barasch is a partner at the downtown Dallas law firm Andrews Kurth, where he is in charge of the corporate governance and securities enforcement team. But before that, and for close to 20 years, he worked for the Fort Worth office of the Securities and Exchange Commission ... More >>
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July 29, 2010
SEC Says Sam, Charles Wyly Illegally Pocketed $550 Million Over the Last 13 Years
The Securities and Exchange Commission just sent word: In New York federal court today it filed a 78-page complaint charging Sam and Charles Wyly with violating federal securities laws over the last 13 years, during which the SEC alleges the Dallas brothers pocketed more than $550 million in "und ... More >>
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July 9, 2010
Yo, Blockbuster CEO Jim Keyes. Niko Celentano of the Bronx Would Like a Word. And An Emergency Shareholders Meeting.
One week ago today I received an e-mail from a "large stockholder" in Blockbuster -- a gentleman high on the movie-studio food chain, as a matter of fact. He copied me on a missive he sent to the Securities and Exchange Commission in which he asked what in the wide, wide world of sports he could ... More >>
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July 1, 2010
The First of Two Blockbuster Blockbuster Announcements: NYSE Is Delisting Its Stock
In about an hour, Blockbuster will release a second press release concerning, well, what we're not quite sure -- more than likely, though, it will deal with the fate of CEO Jim Keyes, whose contract with the company expires today. And, perhaps, it will address whether or not the downtown-based co ... More >>
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June 9, 2010
Alan Todd May, Who Feds Say Ran Ponzi Scheme From Downtown, Caught in S.F.
Some of the very generic imagery featured on Alan Todd May's company's Web siteAlan Todd May spent the better part of 1983 to 2002 in and out of prison, having been arrested for such things as credit card abuse, check fraud, theft ... well, you name the hustle, he hustled it. There were 14 convic ... More >>
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March 29, 2010
The Reverse Splits: Blockbuster Has 45 Days to Get Back in NYSE's Good Graces
A couple of weeks back, we read the entirety of Blockbuster's annual report and discovered one significant bit of bad news that had gone unnoticed elsewhere: The New York Stock Exchange sent the downtown Dallas-based company a warning that if it didn't get its stock price back above one dollar pr ... More >>
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December 9, 2009
Westfork: Chicken-Fried Life
Fort Worth is a chicken fried steak town.When the Seven Deadly Sins were conceived, I'm quite certain there was a specific dish in mind for gluttony: chicken fried steak. Despite my Fort Worth roots, with a northern bred mother at the stove, chicken fried steak was not on the menu at our house. ... More >>
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August 4, 2009
Tom Hicks's Acquisitions Venture Tries One More Time to Acquire Something
Tom Hicks has been all kinds of busy making deals; alas, none of 'em Rangers-related. Instead, it's his publicly traded investment company, Hicks Acquisitions, making news this week, as once more he tries to keep the venture from being delisted by the New York Stock Exchange, which threatened to ... More >>
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July 17, 2009
U.S. District Judge Fitzwater Dismisses SEC's Insider Trading Case Against Mark Cuban
This morning, U.S. District Judge Sidney Fitzwater dismissed the Securities and Exchange Commission's complaint that Mark Cuban violated insider-trading laws in 2004, when he sold off $750,000 in Mamma.com stock. Why the heave-ho? You know what, just read the judge's opinion and order for yourself, ... More >>
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May 11, 2009
SEC Accuses Two Dallas "Oil and Gas" Men of Luring Investors Down a Dry Hole
Late last week, the Securities and Exchange Commission went to Dallas federal court to accuse 62-year-old Harmut Theodor Rose and 47-year-old James Patrick Reedy of swindling about 300 folks out of at least $10 million. According to the complaint, from August 2003 to August '05, Rose and Reedy ran a ... More >>
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November 17, 2008
SEC Claims Cuban Engaged in Insider Trading in '04
From the Securities and Exchange Commission this morning: "The Securities and Exchange Commission announced that it filed insider trading charges today against Dallas entrepreneur Mark Cuban in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas." The suit -- which can be read in its enti ... More >>
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November 17, 2008
Dallas Mavericks' Owner Mark Cuban Charged With Insider Trading
Uh-oh. Breaking news this morning that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has charged Mavs' owner Mark Cuban with insider trading, stemming from a 2004 sale of stock in an Internet company. Me? I dunno the diff between "insider trading" and a "hot stock tip", but I do this ain't g ... More >>
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November 1, 2007
The Feds Are Not Going After Belo For Phony Circulation Numbers
Uh-oh. Breaking news this morning that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has charged Mavs' owner Mark Cuban with insider trading, stemming from a 2004 sale of stock in an Internet company. Me? I dunno the diff between "insider trading" and a "hot stock tip", but I do this ain't g ... More >>
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October 1, 2007
Belo Corp. Now a Split Personality
Uh-oh. Breaking news this morning that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has charged Mavs' owner Mark Cuban with insider trading, stemming from a 2004 sale of stock in an Internet company. Me? I dunno the diff between "insider trading" and a "hot stock tip", but I do this ain't g ... More >>
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April 10, 2007
The Kornman Falleth
Uh-oh. Breaking news this morning that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has charged Mavs' owner Mark Cuban with insider trading, stemming from a 2004 sale of stock in an Internet company. Me? I dunno the diff between "insider trading" and a "hot stock tip", but I do this ain't g ... More >>
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November 2, 2006
Delay of Shame
Uh-oh. Breaking news this morning that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has charged Mavs' owner Mark Cuban with insider trading, stemming from a 2004 sale of stock in an Internet company. Me? I dunno the diff between "insider trading" and a "hot stock tip", but I do this ain't g ... More >>
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September 27, 2006
Tia's Tex-Nixed
Uh-oh. Breaking news this morning that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has charged Mavs' owner Mark Cuban with insider trading, stemming from a 2004 sale of stock in an Internet company. Me? I dunno the diff between "insider trading" and a "hot stock tip", but I do this ain't g ... More >>
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August 14, 2006
A Bad Cup of Joe
Uh-oh. Breaking news this morning that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has charged Mavs' owner Mark Cuban with insider trading, stemming from a 2004 sale of stock in an Internet company. Me? I dunno the diff between "insider trading" and a "hot stock tip", but I do this ain't g ... More >>
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October 23, 2003
Vice is Nice
Checking in on the wages of sin
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September 12, 2002
Growth Industries
With the Vice Fund, you can invest in beer, cigs and other naughty stuff
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February 7, 2002
Enron's End Run
To make a mess as big as the Enron debacle, you need some friends in high places--Texas Senator Phil Gramm and his wife, for instance
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November 7, 1996
God and mammon
Kathy and Richard Kingsmore seemed like such nice church folk. But the Feds say their greed trumped their gospel.
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June 27, 1996
Hot Product
World-class embezzler Gary Lewellyn rebounds with a fast-selling treatment for A.D.D.

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