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- Trial of Ex-Bear Stearns Execs Goes to Jury
- By Grant McCoolNEW YORK (Reuters) - Pay and venue were the focus of a jury's early deliberations on Monday in the trial of two former Bear Stearns hedge fund managers accused of fraud over dealings in mortgage-backed securities early in the financial crisis."Please explain venue further," said one of the...
- News items 2009-11-09
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- Could a Florida real estate deal sink Cioffi and Tannin?
- NEW YORK Fortune -- While there has been some excitement in the courtroom itself during the first few weeks of the federal criminal trial of Bear Stearns hedge fund managers Ralph Cioffi and Matthew Tannin, the real action in the trial so far seems to be taking place in and...
- News items 2009-10-28
- Trial Lawyer Defends Bear Manager; U.S. Cites "lies"
- By Grant McCool NEW YORK (Reuters) - A lawyer for former Bear Stearns hedge fund manager Ralph Cioffi on Wednesday vigorously defended him against prosecution allegations he repeatedly lied to investors early in the financial crisis, describing as "ridiculous" one charge of insider trading. Fund managers Cioffi and Matthew Tannin...
- News items 2009-10-14
- Ex-Bear Fund Managers Lied to Investors: U.S.
- By Grant McCool NEW YORK (Reuters) - Two former Bear Stearns Cos managers whose hedge funds collapsed early in the financial crisis lied to investors to save their bonuses and reputations, a U.S. prosecutor said on Wednesday. But during opening statements in the trial at the U.S. District Court in...
- News items 2009-10-14
- Bear Stearns case: Not so simple
- NEW YORK Fortune -- In yesterday's opening statements in the criminal case against two Bear Stearns hedge-fund managers, Brooklyn federal prosecutors followed all the pundits' advice and did what the Enron prosecutors had done so successfully before them: They kept it simple. Yet simplifying what is intrinsically complex has its...
- News items 2009-10-15
- Judge in Bear Stearns Trial Rejects Jurors For Bias
- By Grant McCool NEW YORK (Reuters) - Two prospective jurors who wrote comments critical of Wall Street were rejected by a judge for the trial of two former Bear Stearns' hedge fund managers on fraud charges. The jurors were opposed by lawyers for big money managers Ralph Cioffi and Matthew...
- News items 2009-10-13
- Bear Stearns Exec Ignored Conflict Warnings: Government
- By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) - A former Bear Stearns Cos hedge fund manager facing an insider trading charge routinely ignored warnings of potential conflicts of interest, and was rebuffed when he tried to pledge some money toward a loan to build a luxury Florida condominium, prosecutors said. The...
- News items 2009-08-19
- Sparring Over Evidence at Wall Streeters Trial
- By Grant McCoolNEW YORK (Reuters) - In closing arguments in the trial of the first high-profile Wall Streeters on fraud charges stemming from the financial crisis, a U.S. prosecutor said two hedge fund managers told "black and white lies," but a defense lawyer attacked the government for "misleading" the jury.U.S....
- News items 2009-11-05
- US trial of ex-Bear Stearns execs goes to jury
- By Grant McCool of Reuters NEW YORK - The trial of two former Bear Stearns hedge fund managers went to a jury, the first high-profile Wall Street executives criminally charged with fraud over subprime mortgage-backed securities that fuelled the market meltdown. US prosecutors called a score of witnesses and cited...
- News items 2009-11-09
- Bear Stearns trial wraps up
- In some ways, the trial of Ralph Cioffi, 53 and Matthew Tannin, 48, is all about email. That's what it boiled down to as the high-profile trial wrapped up last week. Prosecutor say the Bear Stearns hedge fund managers told "black and white lies" about the funds in the first half of...
- News items 2009-11-09
- Big questions after acquittals
- As Wall Street continues to cheer, the jury acquittals of Ralph Cioffi and Matthew Tannin continue to reverberate. Business Week notes there are plenty of unanswered questions. Chief among them is whether and to what extent the two Bear Stearns hedge fund managers were responsible for massive...
- News items 2009-11-11
- Bear Stearns hedgie was on meds
- NEW YORK Fortune -- In a bit of pre-trial drama, federal prosecutors recently placed the digital diary of Matthew Tannin into the public record. In it, the Bear Stearns hedge fund manager fretted about becoming addicted to sleeping pills some six months before the funds he co-managed blew up in...
- News items 2009-10-13
- A bad week for Bear Stearns alumni
- NEW YORK Fortune -- The $20 million insider-trading ring that the U.S. government alleges was masterminded by billionaire hedge-fund manager Raj Rajaratnam also included two former Bear Stearns hedge-fund managers. According to two federal complaints, two of Rajaratnam's partners in the alleged crimes were Mark Kurland, of Mount Kisco, N.Y.,...
- News items 2009-10-19
- E-mail strategy fails in Bear hedge fund case
- Prosecutors had hoped that a string of e-mails exchanged in 2007 between Ralph Cioffi and Matthew Tannin, the former Bear Stearns hedge fund managers acquitted of fraud on Tuesday, would present a convincing case that the two men had lied to investors. The e-mail traffic concerned the subprime mortgage market,...
- News items 2009-11-10
- Bear Stearns manager feared "blow-up risk" in Nov 2006
- Reuters NEW YORK – One of two former Bear Stearns managers indicted for fraud over the collapse of hedge funds in 2007 feared a "blow up risk" to investors as early as November 2006, according to an email released on Thursday. The email by fund manager Matthew Tannin was cited...
- News items 2009-10-08
- Bear Stearns fund managers found not guilty
- Two Bear Stearns hedge fund managers accused of misleading investors were found innocent of all charges on Tuesday, marking a blow to the first major effort by US prosecutors to bring a criminal case related to the subprime mortgage meltdown. Ralph Cioffi and Matthew Tannin, who ran two investment vehicles...
- News items 2009-11-10
- Wall Street's New Villain: Just Blame It on Goldman Sachs
- Matthew Goldstein submits: Sometimes the best defense to a criminal charge is pointing to an even bigger villain. So maybe former Bear Stearns hedge fund manager Ralph Cioffi should look to blame his funds’ spectacular implosion two summers ago on the one Wall Street firm everyone loves to hate:...
- External links 2009-08-06
- Bear Stearns hedge fund trial to get underway
- When the trial of Ralph Cioffi and Matthew Tannin, who managed two ill-fated Bear Stearns hedge funds, gets started on Tuesday, JPMorgan JPM will be among the keenest observers. When it bought Bear, it also bought the liability for Cioffi and Tannin, who stand accused of fraud...
- News items 2009-10-12
- Hedge-Fund Duo Runs Afoul of Oldest Regulations -- the Criminal Kind
- Investors willing to pay two percent in fees and 20 percent of the profits probably deserve whatever happens to them. After all, anyone who expects persistently outsized returns after paying costs like these is probably at least a little delusional. Such returns may happen for a while -- especially thanks...
- Blog posts 2008-06-19
- Former Bear Stearns execs charged
- NEW YORK -- In the first criminal case to target Wall Street figures associated with the subprime mortgage meltdown, prosecutors have accused two former Bear Stearns hedge fund managers of conspiracy and fraud. In a federal indictment unsealed Thursday in Brooklyn, prosecutors alleged that Ralph Cioffi,...
- Research articles 2008-06-20
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