NEW YORK (AP) — An Australian man pleaded guilty Thursday to securities fraud for cheating investors of over $90 million by squandering money they spent on his cryptocurrency fund, prosecutors...

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — President Donald Trump’s pardon of former Maine developer Michael Liberty likely won’t absolve him of a civil complaint brought by securities investigators, and it may also...

OLATHE, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas man has been found guilty of federal securities fraud and sentenced to four years’ supervised probation.

The office of U.S. Attorney General for Kansas Derek...

DOVER, Del. (AP) — A federal appeals court has overturned the convictions of four former executives for the only financial institution to be criminally charged in connection with the federal bank...

SEATTLE (AP) — A Washington state man has pleaded guilty to using inside information from a relative who previously worked for Amazon to make profitable stock market trades.

NEW YORK (AP) — A former Wall Street trader was sentenced Monday to over five years in prison after admitting to defrauding investors of $19 million in a Ponzi scheme.

CLARKSBURG, W.Va. (AP) — A Florida man has been indicted on federal charges in West Virginia that he defrauded 18 people out of about $5 million, a prosecutor said.

SILVER SPRING, Md. (AP) — Three Maryland men presenting themselves as pastors targeted church members and other investors in a Ponzi scheme that defrauded victims out of more than $28 million,...

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — The former CEO of a Virginia technology company has been charged with participating in a scheme that defrauded investors out of millions of dollars.

SAN DIEGO (AP) — A San Diego businesswoman who authorities say ran a $400 million investment fraud scheme involving liquor licenses pleaded guilty Wednesday to federal charges.

HOUSTON (AP) — A judge on Thursday ordered that the felony securities fraud case against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton be returned to his home county in North Texas.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The president of a Silicon Valley medical technology company was charged Tuesday with misleading investors by falsely claiming the company had developed a government-approved...

A Pennsylvania attorney has been charged with bilking his law clients out of more than $2.7 million in an investment fraud scheme, federal authorities said Tuesday.

BOSTON (AP) — An employee of a Boston-based biotech company became the second person to be sentenced in a scheme officials say was designed to manipulate the company's stock prices and defraud...

BOSTON (AP) — The founder and operator of an asset management firm pleaded guilty Monday to engaging in a securities fraud scheme that netted about $164 million, federal prosecutors...

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Two former senior management officials at an Indianapolis-based transportation and trucking company have been charged in a securities and accounting fraud scheme, according to...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court will consider taking away an important tool that federal securities regulators used last year to recoup $2.5 billion in ill-gotten gains in fraud...

ATHENS, Ga. (AP) — A former University of Georgia student pleaded guilty Friday to operating a $1 million Ponzi scheme from his fraternity house on campus, federal prosecutors said.

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — An investment fund manager from Philadelphia is facing charges in New Jersey stemming from an alleged $100 million securities fraud scheme.

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The founder of a green energy company who authorities say ran a Ponzi scheme that bilked investors out of millions of dollars has been sentenced to more than two decades in...

NEW YORK (AP) — The Latest on a federal appeals court upholding the securities fraud conviction against former drug company CEO Martin Shkreli (all times local):

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Utah Court of Appeals has affirmed an order for a Utah businessman convicted of running a Ponzi scheme to pay more than $10 million in restitution.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A former Beverly Hills stockbroker has been convicted of fraud for a stock manipulation scheme that bilked investors out of $200 million.

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — A former municipal fire chief and investment manager is headed to prison for running Ponzi scheme that stole more than $10 million from his family, friends and fellow...

PHOENIX (AP) — Federal prosecutors say a Scottsdale securities broker and three others conspired to illegally convert shares of stock into a profit of hundreds of thousands of...

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — An Indianapolis-based trucking company has agreed to pay $42.2 million in restitution to settle securities fraud charges stemming from falsely reporting inflated profits and...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is rejecting arguments made by Justice Brett Kavanaugh when he was an appeals court judge in a case involving securities fraud.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A Nebraska man already convicted in his home state of securities fraud has been ordered to refrain from selling unregistered securities in Iowa.

WATERBURY, Conn. (AP) — Federal prosecutors have filed more charges against a former financial adviser in Connecticut who allegedly defrauded clients out of more than $1 million through a Ponzi...

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A second Mississippi man has been charged in a Ponzi scheme in which investors lost more than $85 million.

William McHenry of Canton pleaded not guilty Friday in...

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A former Portland developer accused of duping investors in a company he founded is facing federal wire and securities fraud charges, officials said Wednesday.

MIAMI (AP) — A Florida attorney has been sentenced to seven years in prison and ordered to pay $19.7 million in restitution for securities fraud.

Court records show that 77-year-old James Schneider was sentenced Thursday in Miami federal court. He was convicted in December of multiple charges, including conspiracy to commit securities and wire fraud. He must pay restitution to 2,156 investors, as well as forfeit $4.8 million.

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — A former Texas state senator who already has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for his part in a Ponzi scheme has received a 5-year prison term for a separate bribery count.

HOUSTON (AP) — The seventh and final defendant has been convicted in what federal prosecutors in Texas call a $40 million securities scam.

John David Brotherton of League City pleaded guilty Tuesday in Houston to conspiracy to commit wire fraud in microcap securities. The indictment defines microcap securities as low-share prices with little or no analyst coverage.

DENVER (AP) — A Colorado man has been sentenced to 76 years in prison for securities fraud.

The Denver Post reports 59-year-old Kelly James Schnorenberg was sentenced last month after a Douglas County District Court jury convicted him in October on 25 counts of security fraud totaling $16 million.

According to the state Department of Regulatory Agencies, the Lone Tree man bilked 240 investors.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — An attorney prosecuting Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on criminal securities fraud charges is asking the state's highest court to reconsider a ruling that has left the future of the case uncertain.

Special prosecutor Brian Wice wants the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals to undo a November ruling that essentially denied his team $200,000 they've previously billed.

Paxton was indicted in 2015 on felony charges of duping investors in a tech startup. He has pleaded not guilty.

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A California man who was the founder and president of a natural gas and oil company in Utah faces charges in that state alleging he defrauded investors.

The Deseret News reports that the Utah Attorney General's Office on Friday charged 60-year-old Spencer Kent Barton of Fresno with multiple counts of securities fraud and other crimes.

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — A British national has been charged in a plot to defraud investors out of hundreds of millions of dollars in connection with a health care company.

The U.S. attorney's office says Pavandeep Bakhshi was arrested at New York's JFK Airport over the weekend. He's scheduled to appear in federal court in Newark on Monday afternoon.

DETROIT (AP) — Australian telecommunications executive Robyn Denholm brings much-needed financial and auto industry expertise to her new role as Tesla's board chairwoman, but her biggest challenge is whether she can rein in a CEO with a proclivity for misbehavior.

Denholm, who has been a Tesla board member for nearly five years, was named to the post late Wednesday, replacing Elon Musk as part of a securities fraud settlement with U.S. government regulators.

CASTLE ROCK, Colo. (AP) — A Colorado man has been convicted on 25 counts of security fraud totaling $16 million.

The Denver Post reports a Colorado Department of Regulatory Agencies news release says Kelly James Schnorenberg, of Lone Tree, was convicted Oct. 22 by a Douglas District Court jury.