Criminal Law

Former CEO of Refco cries his way to a guilty plea
Phillip Bennett, the former CEO of Refco Inc. pleaded guilty today while crying… Refco was one of the world’s largest commodities brokerages, but it went down in flames a few weeks after going public in August 2005...

Former Refco CEO Loses High-Stakes Poker Game; Gets 16 Years
Refco Inc.’s former CEO Phillip Bennett enters Manhattan federal court for his sentencing, Thursday, July 3, 2008. (Credit: AP/Louis Lanzano) 16 years. That was the sentence given to former Refco CEO Phillip Bennett...

Former Refco CEO Says He's Sorry
Philip Bennett, former CEO of failed commodities broker Refco, pleaded guilty to securities fraud weeks before his trial was set to start. The charges stem from a decade-long scheme to conceal the firm's true financial condition from the public...

The Refco Question
Ellen Podgor has the sentencing memos in regard to former Refco CEO Phil Bennett's plea deal. They are interesting reading, but what they do not answer is the most intriguing question that remains unanswered from the entire Refco affair: Why...

Ive Never Had a Case Where a CEO Has Cooperated Like This
It’s been awhile since we’ve written about Refco, the commodities firm that collapsed in 2005 amid allegations that it committed fraud by improperly shifting debt off its books. The meltdown has led to indictments and a wave of civil suits....

Refco boss Phillip Bennett jailed for 16 years by US judge
Phillip Bennett, the British former chief executive of Refco, was sentenced to 16 years in an American prison yesterday after pleading guilty to criminal charges over a scheme to hide the commodities broker's financial problems.

Refco
Ex-CEO Gets 16 Years

Arkansas Nucor Plant Guilty of a Racially Hostile Work Environment
Nucor Guilty Of Racially Hostile Work Environment Must Pay $1.2 Million Settlement

Hitachi Guilty
Must Pay $31 Million for Price Fixing

Pfizer, Pharmacia
Found Guilty of Medicaid Fraud

Sharon Collins
found guilty of conspiring to kill her partner

Christopher Fairchild
guilty verdict for helping Tommy Baldridge murder James Mollette.