WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Willie Gault, a former Chicago Bears wide receiver, faces a civil lawsuit by U.S. securities regulators accusing the American football player and several others of engaging in an alleged scheme to inflate the price of stock in a heart-monitoring device company.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said in a complaint filed on Tuesday in federal ...

(Reuters) - NDS Group Holdings Ltd, which provides software services to pay television, filed with U.S. regulators to raise up to $100 million in an initial public offering of its common stock.

In a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the UK-based company said Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs & Co. and J.P. Morgan Securities are among ...

(Reuters) - Daniel Ruettiger, the legendary Notre Dame football underdog who inspired the 1993 movie "Rudy," couldn't do an end run around the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

The SEC on Friday charged Ruettiger and 12 others with running a stock scam associated with Rudy Nutrition - a company Ruettiger founded to try to compete against Gatorade in the sports ...

The US Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday announced securities fraud charges against six former executives at government-backed mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

The SEC said the executives approved misleading statements that claimed the company did not hold risky sub-prime mortgage loans.

The statements were made in 2007-2008, during the height of the US financial crisis, which had ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Six former top executives at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were sued by U.S. regulators on charges of misleading investors about the mortgage finance companies' exposure to risky home loans in the run-up to the 2008 financial crisis.

The case is one of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's biggest actions against high-level financial ...

(Reuters) - U.S. securities regulators on Friday charged Daniel Ruettiger -- the inspiration behind the 1993 movie "Rudy" -- and 12 others with running a scheme to deceive investors into buying stock in Ruettiger's sports drink company.

Rudy Nutrition, which is no longer in business, provided false and misleading statements about the company to investors, the Securities and Exchange Commission said ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Six former top executives at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were sued by U.S. regulators on charges of misleading investors about the mortgage finance companies' exposure to risky home loans in the run-up to the 2008 financial crisis.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission brought civil fraud charges on Friday against former Fannie Mae CEO ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Six former top executives at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were sued by regulators, who said they misled investors over the mortgage finance companies' exposure to risky home loans in the lead-up to the 2008 financial crisis.

The Securities and Exchange Commission brought civil fraud charges on Friday against former Fannie Mae CEO Daniel Mudd, former Freddie ...