Free Speech, Due Process and Trial by Jury
Lawyers weighed in Wednesday on the new SEC proposal which would increase the frequency and amount of information some firms and hedge funds are required to disclose.
The CEO and three other executives of Grapevine-based United Development Funding convicted of securities fraud, wire fraud and conspiracy will be free while they await sentencing in May, a federal magistrate ruled Monday. The Dallas Business Journal is providing continuous coverage.
Four top executives of a Grapevine-based residential development lender United Development Funding return to federal court today in Fort Worth after conviction for securities fraud. The Dallas Business Journal is providing continuous coverage.
After a week-long trial, the fate of United Development Funding CEO Hollis Greenlaw and three other top executives at the North Texas-based residential real estate development lending firm is in the hands of the jury.
The Dallas Business Journal is providing continuous coverage of the trial. The defense put on its first witness yesterday and may call one of DFW's largest developers of residential and mixed-use communities to the stand Wednesday.
The Dallas Business Journal’s Bill Hethcock reviews what’s happened so far (and been left unsaid) in the criminal securities fraud trial of four United Development Funding executives, including a certain phrase that starts with a “P” and a Twitter feud between one of the defense lawyers and a certain hedge fund manager. Jurors return Tuesday for Week 2.
On Day 3 of the United Development Funding trial, prosecutors called a former board member to the stand who said shifting money from one investment fund to another is improper. The Dallas Business Journal reviews that testimony the testimony of two other witnesses who took the stand Friday.
Prosecutors attempting to send four executives of a North Texas-based real estate investment trust to prison called witnesses Thursday to build their case that transfers between the REIT’s funds are illegal. The Dallas Business Journal is providing continuous coverage of the trial.
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