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The Perp Walk

By Luke Mullins

Posted: May 9, 2008

The Wall Street Journal: "The Securities and Exchange Commission's investigation into Daniel Zwirn's hedge-fund firm has intensified, with more than a dozen subpoenas going out to investors in recent weeks, according to people with knowledge of the regulatory requests.

Newsday: "Two Brooklyn men were arrested yesterday on federal charges that they used their defunct mortgage company to pull a series of ripoffs, including $44 million involving over 250 home loans funded by Fannie Mae, the federally sponsored pool of home mortgages, officials said."

ABA Journal: "Hundreds and hundreds" of New York lawyers will be implicated in a statewide scheme in which nonemployees have improperly been enrolled in the public pension system, the state attorney general says."

SEC: "The Securities and Exchange Commission has obtained an emergency court order freezing the assets of the alleged perpetrator of an Internet fraud scheme that reaped approximately $72 million from more than 3,000 investors in all 50 states and at least 30 foreign countries."

FBI: "Oklahoma Woman Sentenced for Conspiracy, Embezzlement of Casino Funds."

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Luke Mullins is an associate editor at U.S. News, covering banking, real estate, and white-collar crime. He came to the magazine from the American Banker, a financial services daily newspaper, after a stint in the Peace Corps in West Africa and 18 months coaching baseball in the Dominican Republic. Mullins earned a master's degree in journalism from Syracuse University in 2005 and now lives in Washington, D.C., where he grew up. He has written about white-collar criminals for the American magazine, and his work was included in 20 Something Essays by 20 Something Writers: The Best New Voices of 2006, a Random House anthology that appeared on the Boston Globe's bestseller list.

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