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In October 2010, the SEC settled the lawsuit and Mozilo was required to pay a fraction of the $521.5 million he had earned, just $67.5 million in penalties and disgorgement. In August 2009, the SEC filed a suit against Bank of America, alleging that the bank failed to disclose $3.6 billion in bonuses that Merrill Lynch paid its employees.
The Martin Act (New York General Business Law article 23-A, sections 352–353) [1] is a New York anti-fraud law, widely considered to be the most severe blue sky law in the country. [2] Passed in 1921, it grants the Attorney General of New York expansive law enforcement powers to conduct investigations of securities fraud and bring civil or ...
Merrill Lynch & Co., formally Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated, was a publicly-traded American investment bank that existed independently from 1914 until January 2009 before being acquired by Bank of America and rolled into BofA Securities . The firm engaged in prime brokerage and broker-dealer activities and was headquartered ...
Bank of America took a hit owing to its 2008 acquisition of Merrill Lynch in 2013, when Merrill Lynch agreed to pay $160 million to settle a class-action racial discrimination lawsuit brought by a ...
Website. www .merrill .com. Merrill (officially Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated ), previously branded Merrill Lynch, is an American investment management and wealth management division of Bank of America. Along with BofA Securities, the investment banking arm, both firms engage in prime brokerage and broker-dealer activities.
15 U.S.C. § 78bb (f) (1) (A) (section 101 (b) of the Securities Litigation Uniform Standards Act of 1998) Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, Inc. v. Dabit, 547 U.S. 71 (2006), was a case decided by the Supreme Court of the United States involving the extent to which state law securities fraud class action claims were preempted by the ...
Rating agencies lowered the credit ratings on $1.9 trillion in mortgage backed securities from the third fiscal quarter (1 July—30 September) of 2007 to the second quarter (1 April–30 June) of 2008. One institution, Merrill Lynch, sold more than $30 billion of collateralized debt obligations for 22 cents on the dollar in late July 2008.
Market Rules to Remember is a list of ten cautionary rules for investors that was written in 1998 by the then-retired Chief Market Analyst at Merrill Lynch, Bob Farrell. The rules became iconic on Wall Street and are frequently reprinted in leading financial advisory publications.