Despite their reputations as havens for wealthy investors, offshore accounts are an increasingly common tool for small businesses with global connections. Here's how to avoid the regulatory pitfalls.
At first, it might have seemed as if tiny Biovail was taking on a heroic fight against hedge fund giant SAC and researcher Gradient. But this time, Goliath won—and rightly so.
The SEC has stepped up its enforcement of insider-trading rules. But as its case against Dallas Mavericks owner and entrepreneur Mark Cuban shows, it may be going too far. And Cuban is fighting back.
If Democrat Andrew Cuomo becomes governor of New York, he will have to manage a growing furor over natural-gas drilling in the state, where farmers are at odds with environmentalists and the tourism and real estate industries.
Larry Wilcox, star of the '70s-era California highway patrol show CHiPS, suddenly finds himself on the wrong end of the law, pleading guilty to charges in a pension-bribery scheme. There's a lot of that going around.
New York Harbor, immortalized in On the Waterfront, has long been a spawning ground for crime. The latest twist: a massive pump-and-dump stock scheme that left investors underwater.
