In a story that we will cover more after the holidays, the SEC charged an outside lawyer for a client’s fraud on Tuesday, as noted in this press release . via TheCorporateCounsel.net Blog

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Billionaire Bill Gates has taken a stake worth $392 million in Mexican brewer Femsa, according to a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing on Thursday. via Reuters

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- A Chicago judge has granted a motion to allow the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to use information from Conrad Black’s previous criminal and civil trials to try to settle some of the claims against the former press baron.Black, once the head of the world’s third-largest newspaper empire, was sentenced to a six-and-half-year jail sentence earlier this month after being convicted of fraud and obstruction of justice in a criminal court. He also faces a barrage of civil suits, including the one by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Read more

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“After spending a month and a half investigating these allegations, we can say with confidence that there has been no systematic effort by WaMu to inflate home appraisals” The Securities and Exchange Commission reportedly is investigating how Washington Mutual Inc., the nation’s largest savings and loan, handled mortgages that were possibly based on inflated home appraisals. via KGW-TV Portland

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Categories: Breaking News Diebold Inc ., which has been under investigation since 2006 by the Securities and Exchange Commission, said today the Department of Justice has launched a parallel probe. via The Plain Dealer

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“Gone are the complicated data expeditions that forced investors to hunt through financial statements, footnotes, proxy statements, and other disclosure documents to figure out how much a company pays its top executives” Investors have a new online tool to compare what the CEOs of Merrill Lynch and Morgan Stanley made last year, or parse the pay packages of top executives at the nation’s 500 largest companies. via Boston Globe

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McAfee, Inc. today announced that it has filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2006, as well as Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q for the … via The South Mississippi Sun Herald

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The chief executive of oil and gas producer EV Energy Partners LP bought 10,000 shares of common stock, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing Thursday. via Canadian Business Magazine

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Companhia de Bebidas das Americas - AmBev announced today that its board of directors has approved a plan to make a voluntary offer to purchase any and all Class A shares and Class B shares ) of its subsidiary … via Earth Times

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“Targacept has no current plans for further development of TC-2696.” GlaxoSmithKline has ceased its support for a drug candidate being developed by Targacept that recently failed in a clinical trial, Targacept disclosed in a regulatory filing with the Securities and Exchange … via Local Tech Wire

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