The Securities and Exchange Commission filed a lawsuit against a former Apple executive Wednesday, alleging that he exploited his position as a high-ranking attorney to illegally trade Apple stock before the company disclosed its quarterly earnings report to investors. Gene ...

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A jury’s verdict sent a warning to Washington’s political intelligence industry and funds that rely on it: Trading on government secrets is as risky as using insider corporate information.

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The federal prosecutors who sent Wall Streeters to prison for trading on insider information are taking on Washington’s culture of leaks in a first-of-its-kind trial next week.

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Executives and fund managers will have a “bonanza” leaking secret tips after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to weigh in on the most significant insider-trading case in a generation, the top federal prosecutor in Manhattan said. There’s now “an obvious ...

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A man accused of aiding an insider-trading scheme by chewing up sticky notes after sharing market-moving information contained on them will avoid paying a fine in settling U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission claims. Frank Tamayo was a middleman in a ...

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A federal appeals court dealt a blow to the government's success in insider trading prosecutions Wednesday by reversing two convictions with a decision that also jeopardizes a third — and attempts to further define how far prosecutors can push the law in their quest to clean up Wall Street.

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Few crimes on Wall Street generate more headlines than insider trading.

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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, in a third insider-trading trial defeat in the past year, lost its lawsuit claiming that STEC Inc.’s former chief executive officer made $134 million by selling stock before divulging a sales setback to investors.

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Video games settlement, insider trading and the Sports Lawyers Association round out the roundup

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NEW YORK — A former Goldman Sachs trader was sentenced to nine months in prison for wire fraud Friday by a Manhattan judge who took sharp aim at both Goldman and the government, questioning why it took them so long ...

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