Stories in the category Muck tracker
November 6, 2009 at 10:21am
Rupert Murdoch’s son, Lachlan, has set a record for real estate in Australia, paying $21 million for his new house, reports Silicon Alley Insider.
November 5, 2009 at 2:58pm
Federal prosecutors have charged 14 more people in the insider trading case revolving around hedge funder Raj Rajaratnam.
November 5, 2009 at 2:22pm
Former New York City Police Commissioner Bernard B. Kerik pleaded guilty Thursday to tax fraud, lying on a loan application and lying to government officials vetting his nomination to head the Department of Homeland Security.
November 5, 2009 at 8:25am
Fortune magazine has chosen Apple chief Steve Jobs as CEO of the decade.
November 4, 2009 at 2:52pm
Carly Fiorina, former Hewlett-Packard CEO and an adviser to the 2008 McCain campaign, has announced that she’ll run for the U.S. Senate seat held by Barbara Boxer.
November 4, 2009 at 1:22pm
Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin will co-host the Oscars, reports the Los Angeles Times.
November 4, 2009 at 8:33am
Billionaire Julian H. Robertson Jr. has won a bid to avoid tens of millions of dollars in New York City taxes, reports the New York Law Journal.
November 3, 2009 at 2:50pm
David Friehling, former accountant for Bernard Madoff, pleaded guilty to fraud charges Tuesday, Bloomberg reports.
November 3, 2009 at 7:57am
Indicted financier R. Allen Stanford will no longer be addressed as “sir” in Antigua. The Associated Press reports that his knighthood has been revoked.
November 2, 2009 at 7:29am
Twenty-three presidents of private colleges made more than $1 million last year, according to the Chronicle of Higher Education.
October 30, 2009 at 7:39pm
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsome has bowed out of the California governor’s race, reports the Los Angeles Times.
October 30, 2009 at 9:22am
Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates and police officer James Crowley were spotted Wednesday in a Cambridge bar, according to Boston TV station WBZ, apparently continuing their beer summit without the president.
October 29, 2009 at 10:31pm
Patricia Kluge, former wife of billionaire John Kluge, has put her Charlottesville estate on the market for $100 million, reports the Wall Street Journal.
October 29, 2009 at 9:22am
Sam Zell said Wednesday that his investment in the Tribune Co. was “certainly the most amount of money I’ve ever lost in a single deal.”
October 29, 2009 at 9:14am
Pfizer is handing out bonuses of $1 million and $1.2 million to two execs handling the Wyeth buyout, Dealbook reports.
October 28, 2009 at 2:54pm
Bernard L. Madoff’s Ponzi scheme lost $21.2 billion of investors’ cash - as opposed to the oft-quoted $65 billion in paper losses - the court-appointed trustee overseeing claims said Wednesday, according to The New York Times.
October 28, 2009 at 1:01pm
Ahmed Wali Karzai, brother of the Afghan president, is paid regularly by the Central Intelligence Agency, The New York Times reports.
October 27, 2009 at 2:44pm
John M. Dowd, who has counseled John McCain and former baseball commissioner Bart Giamatti, will defend Raj Rajaratnam against insider trading charges, Bloomberg reports.
October 27, 2009 at 12:30pm
Former Packard Bell chief Beny Alagem has sold his Manhattan apartment at 15 Central Park West for $19.9 million.
October 26, 2009 at 6:38pm
Billionaire Nelson Peltz has become a director of Legg Mason after doubling his investment, Bloomberg reports.