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Explore this section to keep up to date with our news, articles, and current events. Featured: Read Debra Hayes as quoted in a Wall Street Journal Article on Morgan Keegan Securities Arbitration   [read more] Our articles are posted below: Click on a summary to view the full article. >>> April 30, 2009 Hedge-Fund Adviser Arthur Nadel Pleads Innocent in Fraud Case April 30 (Bloomberg) -- Arthur Nadel, the jailed Florida hedge-fund adviser arrested in January, pleaded not guilty to a 15-count federal indictment accusing him of fraud. >>> April 29, 2009 Firm Acted as Tutor as It Sold Risky Deals to Towns LEWISBURG, Tenn. — Five years ago, this small factory town was struggling to pay the interest on a bond for new sewers. Bob Phillips, Lewisburg’s part-time mayor and full-time pharmacist, was urged by the town’s financial adviser, an investment bank named Morgan Keegan & Company, to engage in a complex financial transaction to lower interest rates. >>> April 28, 2009 Wells Fargo accused of securities fraud in state lawsuit Atty. Gen. Jerry Brown says the banking giant's subsidiaries told buyers that $1.5 billion of risky auction-rate securities were safe. Wells says it tried to help customers when the market collapsed. >>> April 27, 2009 Morgan Keegan Arbitration Award >>> April 23, 2009 Ex-NFL star scores $950K arbitration against Morgan Keegan Morgan Keegan has been stung in another arbitration case involving its bond funds, this time losing a $950,000 claim to an ex-NFL Pro Bowl star with the Kansas City Chiefs. >>> April 22, 2009 Dreier-Linked Broker Kovachev in Plea-Bargain Talks April 22 (Bloomberg) -- A former broker, Kosta Kovachev, is in plea discussions after being charged with helping Marc Dreier, the accused New York law firm founder, defraud hedge funds of hundreds of millions of dollars. >>> April 21, 2009 Two More Funds, Managers Sued Over Investments With Madoff NEW YORK (Dow Jones)--Two more funds and their fund managers have been sued in separate lawsuits for allegedly breaching their fiduciary duties in entrusting client money with convicted Ponzi-scheme operator Bernard Madoff. >>> April 20, 2009 Pennsylvania firm charged in $23M fraud bilking investors The Securities and Exchange Commission has filed charges against a Philadelphia-area investment adviser and his firm, alleging that it misappropriated more than $23 million in client assets. >>> April 16, 2009 DOJ Charges 5 Persons Criminally In NYC Church Scam NEW YORK (Dow Jones)--Five senior managers of a Long Island hedge fund firm, including its chief executive, were indicted Tuesday in a scheme that defrauded members of their Queens church and others out of more than $10 million, prosecutors said. >>> April 15, 2009 Dallas hedge fund exec Barrett Wissman pleads guilty to securities fraud A Dallas hedge fund executive pleaded guilty to securities fraud and is cooperating with an investigation by the New York attorney general and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission into corruption at that state's pension fund, The New York Times reported Wednesday. >>> April 14, 2009 Investment firm targeted Latinos in Ponzi scheme, SEC alleges Maximum Return Investments of El Segundo and its owner misappropriated or lost $23 million from about 150 Latino investors in California and six other states, the federal regulator said in a lawsuit. >>> April 13, 2009 Stanford U.S. receiver asks for release of more funds HOUSTON (Reuters) - The court-appointed lawyer overseeing the operations and assets of billionaire Texan Allen Stanford's companies has asked a judge to release another $137 million held in customer accounts, according to court documents. >>> April 7, 2009 R. Allen Stanford in ABC Interview Denies Running Ponzi Scheme April 7 (Bloomberg) -- R. Allen Stanford, the financier accused by a U.S. regulator of running a multibillion-dollar Ponzi scheme, told ABC News he did nothing wrong and said he expects to be indicted by a grand jury in about two weeks. >>> April 3, 2009 FINRA Dispute Resolution Update - April >>> April 2, 2009 Merrill Lynch Investor Arbitration Claim Results in $39.8 Million Award An arbitration panel through the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) awarded an investor $30.6 million in compensatory damages and $9.2 million in interest against Merrill Lynch as a result of the negligence of one of their subsidiary broker-dealers. >>> April 1, 2009 SEC eyes private sector to help uncover fraud April 1 (Reuters) - Mary Schapiro, the new chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), is looking to enlist private sector help in uncovering fraud, the Financial Times reported. 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