{"id":13496,"date":"2009-12-30T10:28:18","date_gmt":"2009-12-30T14:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=13496"},"modified":"2009-12-30T10:38:45","modified_gmt":"2009-12-30T14:38:45","slug":"10-big-u-s-financial-scandals-of-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/12\/2009\/10-big-u-s-financial-scandals-of-2009.html","title":{"rendered":"Top 10 U.S. financial scandals of 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; The year of the Ponzi scheme will be followed by heightened regulation and more aggressive prosecutions, experts say. As 2010 approaches, regulators and prosecutors are scrambling to uncover and pursue more fraudsters, while lawmakers seek to close regulatory gaps and give officials more resources.<\/p>\n<p>10 of 2009&#8217;s notorious financial scandals:<\/p>\n<p>MADOFF<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"articleText\">GALLEON &amp; RAJARATNAM<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"articleText\">UBS &amp; TAXES<\/span><\/p>\n<p>STANFORD<\/p>\n<p>PETTERS<\/p>\n<p>BANK OF AMERICA\/MERRILL LYNCH<\/p>\n<p>MOZILO\/COUNTRYWIDE<\/p>\n<p>AIG BONUSES<\/p>\n<p>AUCTION RATE SECURITIES<\/p>\n<p>BEAR STEARNS<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Read Complete Article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/idUSTRE5BS3WW20091229\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; The year of the Ponzi scheme will be followed by heightened regulation and more aggressive prosecutions, experts say. As 2010 approaches, regulators and prosecutors are scrambling to uncover and pursue more fraudsters, while lawmakers seek to close regulatory [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13496"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13498,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13496\/revisions\/13498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}