A Pikesville man obtained a $1.5 million award against his broker Wednesday after an arbitration panel determined the broker was liable for wrongfully involving him in Securities and Exchange Commission litigation. The SEC previously dismissed fraud charges against Jonathan Feldman ...

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One of the defendants charged criminally in a $364 million Ponzi scheme is asking a federal judge to dismiss the Securities and Exchange Commission civil complaint or transfer the case to a different court. Jay B. Ledford is one of ...

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An investment adviser was convicted Wednesday of charges she defrauded investors out of millions of dollars, some of which she used to pay more than $800,000 for prayers by Hindu priests in India to ward off federal investigators.

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GREENBELT — A federal jury began deliberating Tuesday in the trial of an investment adviser charged with orchestrating a multimillion-dollar Ponzi scheme to finance her lavish lifestyle, including spending more than $800,000 for prayers by Hindu priests in India. At ...

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An investment adviser charged with orchestrating a multimillion-dollar Ponzi scheme spent nearly three-quarters of a million dollars on prayers by Hindu priests in India to ward off a federal investigation and save her failing business, according to testimony at her trial this week.

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The things a chairman and CEO of a company will do for love.

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The Securities and Exchange Commission has asked a federal court to oust Elon Musk as Tesla's chairman and CEO, alleging he committed securities fraud with false statements about plans to take the company private.

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A federal judge has dismissed two lawsuits brought by Under Armour shareholders against the company, finding the complaints were either time-barred or failed to adequately allege that the company intentionally misled about sales and future profits.

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President Donald Trump says he's asking federal regulators to consider scrapping the requirement for public companies to report quarterly results, after business executives told him twice-yearly reports would make better economic sense.

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The former CEO of the parent company of for-profit ITT Technical Institute has agreed to pay $200,000 to settle a lawsuit accusing the company's management of hiding from investors the now-defunct firm's rapidly eroding financial condition.

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