Lawsuits

Caroline Ellison outlined for a New York jury how she worked with Sam Bankman-Fried to deceive lenders and customers to build his multibillion dollar cryptocurrency empire — and their failed attempts to prevent a spectacular collapse.

Federal housing authorities persuaded Texas Capital Bancshares to help with the fallout from a bankrupt reverse-mortgage provider, then went back on their promises of financial support, the company says in a new lawsuit.

A New York judge ruled Donald Trump is liable for fraud for exaggerating his net worth by billions of dollars a year on financial records submitted to banks and insurers, a major victory for the state's attorney general before a high-stakes civil trial over remaining claims in the case.

With class certification now in hand, the cities that brought the lawsuit have two weeks to outline how other municipalities will be provided notice of the chance to join.

Federal prosecutors say Menendez, a New Jersey Democrat who sits on the Senate Banking Committee, accepted bribes in return for exerting political influence — including helping Fred Daibes, a small-bank executive who had been accused of loan fraud.

The managers of the bankrupt crypto exchange FTX sued the parents of co-founder and former CEO Sam Bankman-Fried to "recover millions of dollars in fraudulently transferred and misappropriated funds," according to a court filing.

The ruling comes in a lawsuit New York Attorney General Letitia James filed in 2020, claiming Jonathan Braun and others made thousands of merchant cash advances to small businesses, charged annualized interest that sometimes exceeded 1,000% and defrauded and harassed borrowers. 

Comerica CEO Curt Farmer and CFO James Herzog as well as the company itself face a purported class action by shareholders for allegedly making false and misleading statements about the Dallas company's oversight of the Treasury Department's Direct Express program.

The decision by the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan came in a securities fraud lawsuit brought by a trustee for note purchasers in a 2014 syndicated loan deal led by JPMorgan Chase.

The verdict ends a decade-long lawsuit over the Federal Housing Finance Agency's amendment to a stock repurchase agreement in 2012.