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Acquitted Bear Pair Still Have SEC To Deal With

It seems we will have Ralph Cioffi and Matthew Tannin to kick around for a while longer. The two men may have escaped the long arm of the law, winning an acquittal on fraud and insider-trading charges earlier this week,...

Acquitted Bear Stearns Guys Maybe Starting A New Hedge Fund!

They haven't said anything yet but I think it's pretty obvious it's coming. Yesterday, when the dream team in charge of the two ridiculously named Bear Stearns funds--High Grade Structured Credit Strategies Fund and High Grade Structured Credit Strategies Enhanced...

Not Guilty!

The Wall Street trial of the century (and a horrendously botched prosecution) has led to the acquittal of two former Bear Stearns hedge fund managers accused of defrauding investors. It took a jury less than two days to exonerate Ralph...

Dennis Kneale Doesn't Get Why You Can't Lie To Investors

"Didn't [Ralph Cioffi and Matthew Tannin] have a responsibility to stop a panic by saying, 'Look, we think things are going to be okay here'? Can't you be scared in an internal email but still feel things are going...

The Chilling Effect Of The Bear Stearns Prosecution

At the heart of the indictment of former Bear Stearns hedge fund managers Matthew Tannin and Ralph Cioffi is an email exchange in which Tannin questioned the performance of the funds. Federal prosecutors are treating those those emails as the...

Seasons Greetings, From Ralph Cioffi

Oh hell yes, my friends. Oh hell yes. Fuck business cards (unless they belong to egret-lover Sam Israel, whose b-card criminally only sold for $61). A Bear Stearns Christmas card signed by alpha-generator extraordinaire Ralph Cioffi is being auctioned off...

One Bear Stearns Asset That's Getting Bid Up: Indicted Hedge Fund Manager's Business Card

Last week, former Bear Stearns hedge fund manager Matthew Tannin found himself sitting in a Brooklyn jail cell, charged with defrauding investors in a collapsed hedge fund. The University of San Francisco law school graduate was quickly released on bail,...

Bear Stearns Execs Absolutely Floored By Extent To Which They Were Able To Con Investors

As you know, Bear Stearns former hedge fund managers Ralph Cioffi and Matthew Tannin were arrested this morning. The dream team was charged with securities fraud for telling clients in the pair of BSC funds created to invest in that...

Bear Stearns And The Criminalization of Failure

Federal prosecutors are preparing to file criminal charges against managers of two Bear Stearns hedge funds that collapsed at the dawn of the credit crisis last year. Although it's being described as the conclusion of a year long investigation, it...