US Prosecutors Turn Up Heat On Complex Financial Fraud

Mark Melin

Published onMay 11, 2017

Updated on May 14, 2021

US Federal Prosecutors have steadily upped their enforcement of Wall Street crime since the 2008 financial crisis, with a case in Connecticut offering the latest example. While insider trading was initially the focus of prosecutors, led by former US Attorney for the Southern District Preet Bharara, those federal cases eventually expanded to high frequency trading abuses and now involve complex financial fraud cases surrounding the mismarking of illiquid bonds are coming into light.

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Mark Melin

Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.

US Prosecutors Turn Up Heat On Complex Financial Fraud

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