By Emily Witt 4/20/11 7:46pm

White Collar Grime

FBI Now Giving Madoff the Serial Killer Treatment

The FBI has tasked agents from its Behavioral Analysis Unit with profiling the tics and traits of a Wall Street fraudster, according to Reuters.

As is pointed out a number of times in the article, this is a difficult task, since what makes people good at business might coincide with the things that make them Read More

By Emily Witt 4/13/11 7:20pm

Bilious Complaints

Skowron Will Plead Not Guilty

At a pun-filled press conference in lower Manhattan today, the details of the government’s insider trading charges against Chip Skowron were set forth by Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, who reassured Wall Street that there’s still no end in sight to the government’s wide-reaching crackdown.

“I wish I could say that we were just about Read More