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Paul Springer writes about corporate finance. He began his career on the options floor of the Pacific Stock Exchange. He’s a Ph.D. candidate at U.C. Berkeley and includes classical languages and the study of human error among his hobbies.

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The Original Most Wanted Playing Cards

I consider it a good sign--perhaps an indication of a widely felt public urge to "Hang 'em High when it comes to financial fraudsters.Let's face...
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It's official: everyone is a potential fraudster now

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Yes Virginia, there is a fraudster in all of us, even youToday Commodity Futures Trading Commission acting director...
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Alert sales staff a thing of the past?

It's not fraud, but it sure is annoying . . . .As the wave of retail bankruptcies goes on and on, plenty of other...
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$20 Million fine a joke for Carlyle Group?

Those of you following the New York pension fund placement agent debacle are probably wondering what kind of...
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Broker rips off nun who took vow of poverty

Former Legg Mason broker William Joseph Boyle has been barred from the business for defrauding a nun, according to...
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Star Trek fraud legal and lucrative

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The best frauds are the legal ones, where some diabolical character figures out a way to do something that's soul-shatteringly wrong--and leave the...
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Property tax assessment fraud on the rise

Now that pretty much everyone who has real property in California has paid their first installment of tax on it,...
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Sex and drugs: A modest proposal for new ETFs

ETFs, or exchange traded funds, first became popular as listed proxies for such plain vanilla indexes as the S&P 500 (ticker: SPY) and top 100...
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Former fallen VC threatens S.F. mayoral stab

Thanks to Connie Loizos at PE Hub, we have the inside track on a possible San Francisco mayoral candidacy by...
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Morbid fraud of the month award goes to fake funeral arranger

You don't hear this one every day--and that's a good thing.Awards for most morbidly creative fraud planning go out...
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