(Reuters) - In 2009, federal investigators finally arrested Houston financier R. Allen Stanford. For twenty years, Stanford allegedly had run a $7 billion Ponzi scheme from his offshore bank on the Caribbean island of Antigua. U.S. authorities had been nosing around Stanford's empire for longer than a decade but hesitated to open a full-blown probe.

HOUSTON (Reuters) - A financial adviser who worked for former financier Allen Stanford testified at his trial on Wednesday that Stanford personally pressured her to bring in new clients for his bank.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - William Baer, a widely respected antitrust veteran, is the White House's top choice to head the Justice Department's antitrust division, legal sources said.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - William Baer, a widely respected antitrust veteran, is the White House's top choice to head the Justice Department's antitrust division, two sources close to the process said this week.

LONDON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - David Einhorn's reputation as one of the hedge fund industry's most respected investors took a bit a of a hit Wednesday when Britain's financial regulator imposed a 7.2 million pounds fine on him and his Greenlight Capital fund for alleged trading abuses.

HOUSTON (Reuters) - Texas financier Allen Stanford used lies and bribes to steal the hard-earned savings of his customers, prosecutors said on Tuesday.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A hearing in federal court on Tuesday gave the victims of Allen Stanford's alleged Ponzi scheme little clarity after a federal judge said he needed more time before deciding whether an industry-backed fund should be forced to let the investors file claims.

Financier and cricket mogul Allen Stanford built a $7 billion Ponzi scheme on lies and stole the dreams of thousands of his bank's customers, US prosecutors said Tuesday.

A group of Japanese shareholders have filed a lawsuit against disgraced Olympus, demanding $2.9 million for investment losses after a huge accounting scandal depressed the firm's shares.

A US hedge fund caught in a major insider trading probe agreed Monday to pay the government $9 million and help prosecutors gather evidence on two of its employees in return for not being subject to prosecution.

Jury selection began Monday in the trial of the fallen financier and cricket mogul Allen Stanford, accused of running a $7 billion Ponzi scheme, according to an attorney for the firm representing him.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The architect of a $100 million mortgage fraud scheme admitted on Monday to attempting to arrange the murder of a witness who testified against him at trial.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Hedge fund Diamondback Capital Management will pay more than $9 million to settle civil insider-trading charges, and will also enter into a non-prosecution agreement with the U.S. Justice Department.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Hedge fund Diamondback Capital Management will pay more than $9 million to settle civil insider-trading charges, and will also enter into a non-prosecution agreement with the Justice Department.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Diamondback Capital Management will pay more than $9 million to settle allegations of insider trading at the Stamford, Connecticut-based hedge fund.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Securities regulators are due in court on Tuesday to argue that a brokerage industry-backed protection fund should let thousands of victims of Allen Stanford's alleged Ponzi scheme file claims for compensation.

HOUSTON (Reuters) - No one calls him Sir Allen Stanford anymore. He is inmate number 35017-183.

HOUSTON (Reuters) - No one calls him Sir Allen Stanford anymore. He is inmate number 35017-183.

Civilian courts have no authority to hear corruption charges against ousted Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak because he reverted to his former military rank when he quit, his defence lawyer Farid al-Deeb said on Thursday.

(Reuters) - Large U.S. companies are facing fewer shareholder securities fraud lawsuits than at any other time in the last decade, a trend that may persist as fallout from the 2008 financial crisis recedes.