In the case of the Bristol-Myers executive, investigators identified a pattern to the trades, which took place from 2010 to 2012, according to a complaint.
Mr. Ugolotti was not aware of his connection to the more than 25 companies to which he had been appointed chief executive, investigators said.
Based on earlier interviews with the bank's executives, investigators believe the bank's audit committee and other directors might have known about losses and bonus payments before shareholders voted to approve the deal in early December, this person said.
His father, Peter Rodger, a film executive, told investigators the document "freaked him out".
Prosecutors in the city tax corruption scandal are tightening their case against Albert Schussler, an 86-year-old executive who investigators say was the mastermind behind a long-running bribery scheme in which he paid city employees to lower tax bills for his clients, some of the most wealthy and powerful real estate barons in Manhattan.
In testimony before the S.E.C, Jeffrey K. Skilling, Enron's former chief executive, told investigators that he was unaware of LJM's outsized returns, but added that -- barring significant losses on the deals in later months -- they could have been achieved only if the company was defrauded.
Engineers, executives, employees, investigators, convicts, even burnouts – they all played a role.
Glaxo distanced itself from some of the former executives after investigators said the executives had confessed to fraud.
Scaled executives told investigators that they believed from their conversations with the FAA that the company was complying with all rules.
Kenneth T. Cuccinelli II, the Virginia attorney general, did not violate ethics rules in failing to disclose some $5,100 in gifts from a corporate executive, an independent investigator said on Thursday.
