Earlier this week
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Phillip Bennett, the former chief executive of collapsed commodities broker Refco, reported to prison on Thursday to serve a 16-year sentence for fraud, a spokeswoman for the Federal Bureau of Prisons...
The former British chief executive of Refco has started a 16-year jail sentence. Phillip Bennett pleaded guilty to charges relating to hiding the commodity broker problematic finances, reports the Times. The company filed for bankruptcy in 2005 after...
See All
Former Refco Inc. President Tone N. Grant was sentenced Thursday to 10 years in prison for his role in the company's collapse, covered here. According to the article, defense lawyers for Grant, a former Yale University quarterback and decorated...
It can seem like the Hillary campaign happened as long ago as the Teapot Dome Scandal, and yet the extent of the dysfunction within her staff still has the power to inspire awe. From Josh Green's forthcoming Atlantic Team Hillary-meltdown story,...
See All
NEW YORK The former head of Refco Inc., blamed for the collapse of one of the world's largest commodities brokerages, was sentenced to 16 years in prison Thursday by a judge who decried the "staggeringly arrogant" greed of white...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Phillip Bennett, the former chief executive of Refco, was sentenced to 16 years in prison on Thursday for a nearly decade-long fraud that ultimately pulled the commodities brokerage into...
See All