• Stock Option Backdating: What’s the Big Deal?

    The list of companies involved in stock option backdating and related investigations continues to grow. The Wall Street Journal currently lists more than 120 companies under scrutiny, including the likes of UnitedHealth, Broadcom, Apple, and Home Depot. These companies are […]

  • Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle Wants to Raise Taxes By $1.74 BILLION

    Remind me again…. didn’t he say in his re-election campaign that he wasn’t going to raise taxes? Sounds like another lie from the Doyle administration… Here’s what’s in store for us: An additional $630 per each of the 2.76 million […]

  • Pinnacle Development Partners Charged With Running a Ponzi Scheme

    Pinnacle Development Partners LLC has been charged with running a Ponzi scheme that took $69 million from over 2,000 investors. The top man, Gene O’Neal was charged with 19 counts of federal mail and wire fraud. In 2006, Pinnacle advertised […]

  • Fraud, Waste, and Abuse in Iraq Reconstruction

    In a February 15 memo to the members of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, a staggering estimate of the amount of fraud, waste, and abuse carrying out the Iraq reconstruction was revealed: Last fall, GAO reported to Congress […]

  • On Ethics For Lawyers

    I was recently amused as I was directed to a site detailing “proposed [tag]ethics[/tag] opinions” for North Carolina [tag]lawyers[/tag]. This is no joke. It appears that the ethics rules will prohibit attorneys from handing out business cards, because people might […]

  • Some Basics About Sarbanes-Oxley

    Say it fast five times: Sarbanes-Oxley, Sarbanes-Oxley, Sarbanes-Oxley, Sarbanes-Oxley, Sarbanes-Oxley… If you’re like me, you’re sick of hearing these words. Lots of people, however, don’t have the first idea what the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 is really about. I think […]

  • The REAL “Flip This House” is coming back!

    You heard it right! Not those scam artists from San Antonio and Atlanta. This is “The Real Deal.” Quite literally. Richard Davis, his sidekick Ginger, and the rest of the Trademark Properties team are going back on the air (this […]

  • Microsoft Vista and Office 2007 banned…

    According to InformationWeek, The U.S. Department of Transportation has banned upgrades to Microsoft Windows Vista, Internet Explorer 7 and Office 2007. This ban will be for an indefinite period of time. According to InformationWeek: The agency has an “indefinite moratorium” […]

  • Dennis Troha indicted on federal charges

    Dennis Troha has been federally indicted on one count of fraud and one count of making a false statement to the FBI. It is alleged that Troha used a business entity called Johnson Houston Partners to give family members over […]

  • Federal Charges Against Insiders at UBS and Morgan Stanley

    According to today’s Wall Street Journal: Federal authorities have charged 13 individuals on insider trading charges in connection with two separate schemes to trade on inside information about analyst recommendation changes before they became public and pending mergers and acquisitions, […]