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A 24-count indictment was unsealed this morning in federal court in Central Islip, New York, charging Brian R. Callahan, an investment fund manager, and Adam J. Manson, a real estate developer, with conspiracy to commit securities and wire fraud for their roles in operating a $96 million Ponzi scheme. Both defendants are in custody and will be arraigned before United States Magistrate Judge A. Kathleen Tomlinson at the United States Courthouse in Central Islip.

Washington, DC - The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged Capital One Financial Corporation and two senior executives for understating millions of dollars in auto loan losses incurred during the months leading into the financial crisis.

Miami, Florida - The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged a former corporate executive living in South Florida with insider trading based on confidential information that he learned as part of a professional organization.

Washington, DC - The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced a non-prosecution agreement (NPA) with Ralph Lauren Corporation in which the company will disgorge more than $700,000 in illicit profits and interest obtained in connection with bribes paid by a subsidiary to government officials in Argentina from 2005 to 2009.

The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced charges against a New York-based fund manager and his two firms for luring investors into a trading program that would purportedly maximize their profits but instead spent their money in unauthorized ways.