INSIDER TRADING

Finding the truth in the fast-developed Sarah Palin scandals involving claims that she A) had sex with Miami Heat star Glen Rice in the 1980s, B) snorted cocaine from a 55-gallon drum years ago while snowboarding with her husband, Todd, and friends, C) had an affair with her husband's business partner for six months, and D) smoked pot in college with a professor, is easier than it seems.

Prosecutors asked a judge on Tuesday to imprison a Taiwan-born former technology company consultant for as long as 8 to 10 years as part of a crackdown on insider trading.

Hedge fund Diamondback Capital Management, which had been embroiled in the government's insider trading case, has agreed to pay back roughly $1 million to settle an insider trading case, according to a court filing released on Wednesday.

Hedge fund Diamondback Capital Management, which had been embroiled in the government's insider trading case, has agreed to pay back roughly $1 million to settle an insider trading case, according to a court filing released on Wednesday.

A former Moody's Investors Service analyst who bolted for India and cannot be found was ordered to pay $34.56 million in a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission lawsuit over his alleged illegal insider trading.

Billionaire Edgar Bronfman Jr is stepping down as chief executive of Warner Music Group Corp, the world's third-largest music company, just two months after the company was bought by Len Blavatnik's Access Industries.

A lawyer caught up in the government's massive insider trading investigation was sentenced to three years in prison on Friday after pleading guilty to participating in a scheme to trade on corporate secrets from a prominent law firm.

A California man accused last week of insider trading on Disney's $4 billion purchase of Marvel is hitting back at the Securities and Exchange Commission.

A former Nasdaq OMX Group Inc executive was sentenced Friday to 3-1/2 years in prison after pleading guilty for making hundreds of thousands of dollars by trading on confidential information.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC ) is now looking into potential insider trading by Standard & Poor's employees before the rating agency's decision to downgrade the U.S.'s long-term debt, according to Financial Times.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has asked rating agency Standard & Poor's (S&P) to disclose which employees knew of its decision to downgrade U.S. debt before it was announced last week, the Financial Times said, citing people familiar with the matter.

Prosecutors asked a federal judge to sentence Raj Rajaratnam to as much as 24-1/2 years in prison, calling the Galleon Group hedge fund founder arguably the most egregious violator of insider trading laws ever to be caught.

Raj Rajaratnam, the Galleon Group hedge fund founder convicted of insider trading in May, asked a federal judge to impose a sentence substantially below what U.S. guidelines recommend, saying a long prison term would be tantamount to a death sentence.

Playboy Enterprises, which pioneered print adult entertainment with Playboy magazine, has partnered with one of the largest names in pornography's online industry -- Manwin.

Former Baltimore Orioles third baseman Doug DeCinces agreed to pay $2.5 million to settle insider trading charges filed by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Thursday.

Former Goldman Sachs Group Inc director Rajat Gupta and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission are dropping litigation against each other stemming from the sprawling federal insider trading probe.

A former Major League baseball player and three others were charged and fined by the SEC on Thursday for their insider trading in 2009.

A former expert-networking executive arrested as part of a government insider trading probe asked a New York judge on Monday to throw out wiretap evidence four weeks before his trial is to begin.

For more than three years, U.S. securities regulators investigated allegations of accounting fraud at a small telecom firm called China Voice Holding Corp, but could not make a case.

A former commodities trader pleaded guilty on Monday to threatening to kill more than 40 financial regulators, including the heads of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.

Mark Cuban, the billionaire owner of the Dallas Mavericks basketball team, suffered a legal setback on Monday when a Dallas federal judge threw out one of his defenses in a Securities and Exchange Commission insider-trading lawsuit.