WSJ on Harry Markopolos’ Whistleblowing Shell Companies

By Ryan Chittum   Feb 3, 2011 at 12:04 PM

The Wall Street Journal has a very interesting scoop this morning on a lawsuit accusing banks of gouging pensioners and... More

An Excellent WSJ Piece on Federal Regulators’ Inaction

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 21, 2010 at 10:52 AM

The Wall Street Journal has an excellent follow to its scoop yesterday that New York is planning to sue Ernst... More

Audit Notes: WSJ Scoop, SAC’s Golf Guy, Two Old Guys Flailing

By Ryan Chittum   Nov 19, 2010 at 11:53 PM

The Wall Street Journal has a big scoop out this evening, reporting that the federal government is winding up a... More

Audit Notes: Crisis Panel Has Teeth?, Mortgage Fraud, Corporate Size

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 24, 2011 at 08:44 PM

Shahien Nasiripour of The Huffington Post scoops that the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission may just have some impact after all:... More

Audit Notes: Globalization and Corporate Crime, Capital Gains, Auto Correct

By Ryan Chittum   May 4, 2011 at 07:23 PM

— Columbia's Jeffrey Sachs is riled up these days. He has an interesting piece on how and why corporate crime... More

Audit Notes: Pogue Problems, Wall Street Arrest, Mortgage Assets Crashing Again

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 27, 2011 at 08:26 PM

Jim Romenesko scoops that a PR newsletter is selling $159 tickets to watch David Pogue say what pitches he likes... More

Audit Notes: Toxic Assets, Foreclosure Mills, SEC (Finally) Looking at CDOs

By Ryan Chittum   Feb 10, 2011 at 12:20 AM

What ever happened to that pile of toxic assets that the banks were sitting on? Wall Street Journal reporter Michael... More

Audit Notes: UBS Fraud, Stevie Cohen, Bankers 4 Liz Warren!

By Ryan Chittum   May 6, 2011 at 04:30 PM

So a giant Swiss bank defrauds American taxpayers. It bid-rigs the muni-bond derivatives market. It pays kickbacks and bribes. The... More

Bribery Without Bribers

James B. Stewart brings up an undercovered story; Tyson Foods executives walked

By Ryan Chittum   Jun 27, 2011 at 03:21 PM

James B. Stewart got off to a strong start this weekend with his new New York Times column, which fills... More

Cries For Help From Wall Street

Tie our hands before we strike again

By Ryan Chittum   Apr 21, 2011 at 08:31 AM

Financial Times columnist John Gapper had a good piece in New York a couple of weeks back about the psychology... More

FHFA Suits Try to Hold Individual Execs Accountable

By Ryan Chittum   Sep 8, 2011 at 04:37 PM

Jonathan Stempel of Reuters points out something that the press has all but ignored about the Federal Housing Finance Agency's... More

Harsh Justice for a Wall Street Thief

A thief who stole from Wall Street, of course

By Ryan Chittum   Mar 24, 2011 at 03:25 PM

David Weidner has an excellent column on the unfortunate case of Sergey Aleynikov, better known as the guy who stole... More

How to Corner the Oil Market

CFTC suit says traders manipulated crude prices in 2008; revisiting a Journal piece

By Ryan Chittum   May 25, 2011 at 02:56 PM

The papers all play up the big news that Commodity Futures Trading Commission lawsuit is accusing three companies of helping... More

Insurer Alleges Fraud by Bear Stearns and JPMorgan

Selling a “sack of shit” and then demanding money back while denying investors theirs

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 25, 2011 at 11:49 AM

Bloomberg News has a story of the day, reporting that JPMorgan Chase/Bear Stearns is being sued by the insurance company... More

Most of the Press Misses Foreclosure Scandal News (UPDATED)

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 15, 2010 at 11:53 AM

Iowa's attorney general said yesterday that he will bring criminal charges over the foreclosure scandal. But most of the press... More

Outsourcing Investigations to the Suspects

The Washington Post looks at how the SEC lets companies probe themselves

By Ryan Chittum   May 23, 2011 at 12:48 PM

If you're a watchdog/government regulator and you suspect a company of committing crimes, it's probably not the best idea to... More

Resistance Is Futile for Alabama’s White Collar Criminals

The Journal takes an excellent look at tough state regulator Joseph Borg

By Ryan Chittum   Jan 24, 2011 at 01:36 PM

The Wall Street Journal has a superb Money & Investing profile this morning of an Alabama securities regulator who makes... More

The NYT Shows Why Cuomo’s After Rattner

Emails show ex-private-equity investor and car czar misled investigators early in the probe

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 8, 2010 at 02:33 PM

The New York Times fronts an excellent story on the Steven Rattner scandal this morning. If you wondered why Andrew... More

The WSJ Gives a Madoff the Soft Touch

Access and a celebrity-journalism-style puff piece

By Ryan Chittum   Dec 20, 2010 at 02:24 PM

This looks for all the world like a publicist-driven story in The Wall Street Journal story on how Andrew Madoff... More

The Former Car Czar Kicks Back on CNBC

Network lets Rattner guest host as subpoenas, settlements, and lawsuits fly

By Ryan Chittum   Nov 18, 2010 at 07:24 PM

It's probably not the best idea to let somebody in the news for bribing public officals guest-host your news show.... More