Zvi Goffer could have passed for Tony Soprano when he warned confederates in his alleged insider-trading ring that "someone's going to jail."

Federal and state authorities announced charges against 14 new defendants in the Galleon insider-trading scandal.

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JPMorgan Chase has agreed to a settlement worth more than $700 million over federal regulators' charges that it made unlawful payments to friends of public officials to win municipal bond business in Jefferson County, Ala.

Disgraced financier Bernard Madoff's longtime auditor has entered a guilty plea in a federal court in Manhattan.

Jailed swindler Bernie Madoff said it was "amazing" that he didn't get caught sooner in his multi-billion-dollar Ponzi scheme, and that everything the SEC did to investigate him prior to 2006 was a waste of time, according to a jailhouse interview he gave to SEC Inspector General H. David Kotz.

Potential losses to U.S. investors in Texas financier Allen Stanford's alleged Ponzi scheme are far more widespread than initially feared, according to a new analysis obtained by CNBC.

The court-appointed receiver who is trying to unwind the alleged Allen Stanford Ponzi scheme says he has identified $1.5 billion in assets that could be returned to victims.

Credit-rating agencies would be more tightly regulated under legislation approved on Wednesday by the House Financial Services Committee.

The linking of Advanced Micro Device's former top executive to the largest U.S. insider trading scheme in decades may raise questions about its business practices.

Apollo Group posted a 60 percent drop in quarterly profit, and the for-profit education provider said regulatory authorities had launched an informal probe over its revenue recognition practices.

The top U.S. securities regulator said she was looking for ways to crack down on "naked access," the practice of brokers giving high-frequency traders unfettered access to public markets.

Anonymous trading venues known as "dark pools" are a technological evolution that have benefitted both institutional and retail trading by bringing down transaction costs, Goldman Sachs Group said in a memo to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

Galleon Group founder Raja Rajaratnam, accused in the biggest ever U.S. criminal prosecution of insider trading at a hedge fund, retained high- powered Washington lawyer John Dowd to represent him.

Jeffry Picower, a Florida philanthropist alleged to have extracted billions from Bernard Madoff's investment scheme, drowned in his pool Sunday, police said. He was 67.