NASAQ Isn’t the Only Thing Going Down: Ex-Managing Director of NASDAQ Gets 3 1/2 Years for Insider Trading

By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Donald Johnson, a former managing director of the NASDAQ Stock Market, was sentenced Friday to 3 1/2 years in prison for engaging in insider trading on multiple occasions using non-public information he obtained in his role as a NASDAQ executive, authorities said. Johnson was also ordered to forfeit $755,066. Johnson, 57,…

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Pa. Judge Gets 28 Years in “Kids-for-Cash” Scandal

By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Common Pleas Judge Mark A. Ciaverella of Luzerne Co., Pa., in one of the more shameful displays of judicial digression, got lucrative kickbacks from private juvenile detention centers after sending scores of children there, some who should have not been incarcerated. On Thursday, U.S. District Court Judge Edwin M. Kosik II…

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