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Washington, D.C., Dec. 30, 2008 (LAWFUEL) – The Securities and Exchange Commission has obtained an emergency court order to halt an alleged Ponzi scheme and affinity fraud that collected more than $23 million from thousands of investors in the Haitian-American community nationwide through a network of purported investment clubs. The SEC alleges that Creative Capital

Washington, D.C., Dec. 30, 2008 (LAWFUEL) – The Securities and Exchange Commission announced today that Susan G. Markel, Chief Accountant for the Division of Enforcement, will leave the agency in January to become a Managing Director in the Corporate Investigations practice of AlixPartners LLP, a global business advisory firm. “For more than 14 years, Susan

Brussels (Dec. 18, 2008 – LAWFUEL) – Anthony Van der Hauwaert, a corporate mergers and acquisitions lawyer, has been named a European partner with global law firm Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P., effective Jan. 1, 2009. Van der Hauwaert is resident in the firm’s Brussels office and has been a member of the Brussels Bar

WASHINGTON (LAWFUEL) – Richard Hendryx, 78, of Morristown, Ariz., pleaded guilty today to traveling in foreign commerce with the intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct with children, Acting Assistant Attorney General Matthew Friedrich and U.S. Attorney for the District of Arizona Diane J. Humetewa announced. During the plea hearing before U.S. Magistrate Judge Michelle

December 23, 2008 – LawFuel – Legal Announcements Daily – Davis Polk & Wardwell advised a syndicate of underwriters represented by RBC Dominion Securities Inc. in connection with a C$2 billion offering of 56,750,000 common shares by Royal Bank of Canada. The offering consisted of a public offering in Canada and a private placement to

(LAWFUEL) – A two-year operation by the Australian Federal Police (AFP) has ended after the arrest in Australia, of a man alleged to be the head of a transnational drug trafficking syndicate spanning three continents. The man was formally charged on 26 December and is due to face Melbourne Magistrates Court today, following his extradition

NEW YORK, Dec. 29, 2008 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The regulatory settlements that forced UBS Securities to offer to repurchase all Auction Rate Securities (“ARS”) that the firm had improperly sold to investors, prior to the collapse of the ARS market in February of 2008, expired at the close of business on December 19, 2008. Maddox

Washington, D.C., Dec. 29, 2008 (LAWFUEL) – The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that it has unanimously approved revisions to modernize its oil and gas company reporting requirements to help investors evaluate the value of their investments in these companies. “In the more than a quarter century since the SEC last reviewed its rules