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DEALBOOK; F.B.I. Looks Into Firm For Reverse Mergers - Federal Bureau of Investigation searches the offices of the New York Global Group; corporate advisory firm is known for helping bring Chinese companies public in the United States through reverse mergers, or buying the shell of defunct American firms that had been publicly listed. [Read More...]

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DEALBOOK; Insiders Call For Oversight Of Futures - Futures executives, worried about government overreach, want to have a hand in greater industry oversight; they are spearheading efforts for new regulation as they try to heal the black eye left by MF Global and the disappearance of $1.2 billion in its customers' money; calls for a crackdown must contend with a legacy of a light regulatory touch. Photo [Read More...]

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DEALBOOK; After a Legal Setback, Commodity Traders' Complaint Is to Be Heard by a Lower Court - Wall Street's lawsuit directed at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission's new restrictions on speculative trading is dismissed by a federal appeals court; suit by Securities Industry and Financial Markets Assn and the International Swaps and Derivatives Assn will now move to a lower-level court; at issue is a rule which some consumer advocates blame for inflating commodities prices. [Read More...]

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Probation for a Former Galleon Group Employee - David R. Slaine, a former Galleon Group employee who helped the authorities investigate the hedge fund?s co-founder, Raj Rajaratnam, was sentenced to probation for three years for securities fraud. [Read More...]

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S.E.C. Charges Alan Levan with Misleading Investors - Alan B. Levan, chief executive of BankAtlantic Bancorp, was accused of accounting fraud and of hiding losses in the bank?s real estate portfolio. [Read More...]

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