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Ex-Goldman Exec Given 2 Years for Inside Trades

A former Goldman Sachs and Procter & Gamble board member once widely respected for his business smarts has been sentenced to 2 years in prison for insider trading. He also was fined $5 million.

Ex-Stanford Exec Gets 3 Years for $7 Billion Swindle

A top executive in the now-defunct empire of disgraced Texas financier R. Allen Stanford was sentenced to three years in prison Thursday for her role in helping the once jet-setting businessman bilk investors out of more than $7 billion in one of the biggest Ponzi schemes in U.S. history.

New Details in Hewlett-Packard Pretexting Case

Five years after tech giant Hewlett-Packard found itself at the center of a headline-grabbing pretexting scandal, DailyFinance has learned that federal authorities have expanded the scope of their prosecution to include other potential defendants.