Lance Armstrong Investigation: USADA's Case to Move to Arbitration

Various news outlets from the Wall Street Journal to VeloNation are stating that a three-person independent review board has ruled unanimo...

Going After the Deep Pockets in the Madoff Case

If you are looking for a break from today's coverage of the Supreme Court's ruling on ObamaCare, the NYTimes has an interesting arti...

Madoff and Merkin: A $410,000,000 Resolution

Photo from NY Times We've written before about Ezra Merkin's hedge funds that fed Madoff billions of investor dollars. Merkin colle...

Lance Armstrong Investigation: Are Pro Athletes Being Harassed?

I read on a regular basis, sometimes from comments left on this blog, that the government shouldn't be harassing Lance Armstrong, Roger ...

Lance Armstrong Investigation: Is it Affecting the Olympic Team?

The rumor mill is speculating that four US cyclists who would normally be considered for the US Olympic cycling team this summer are not goi...

Sir Allen Stanford gets life sentence

Well, the US Justice Department comes through on Ponzi schemer, Allen Stanford and sentenced him to 110 years for running his $7 billion Pon...

Lance Armstrong Investigation: USADA's Charges and Evidence

Photo from cbsnews.com I found a copy of USADA's letter to Lance and friends online . From what I've read, some of USADA's evide...

Lance Armstrong Investigation: It's Not Over Yet...

Photo taken from WSJ.com (Gettty Images) Just when you thought maybe the Lance Armstrong doping investigation was going to be over, USADA ch...

What happens when you mix Pharma with Politics?

Apparently, the result is shady dealing and crony capitalism at its finest. When favors are made to a vendor or customer in business we call...

More on Fraud and the US Department of Justice

In several recent posts , I've been critical of the US Department of Justice's extremely poor record of prosecuting Wall Street exec...