Auction rate securities fraud charges, to be exact. According to the Massachusetts AG, Merrill continued talking up ARS to analysts and - worse - advising its customers to buy into ARS, even as Merrill itself was ditching.
Real classy.
-- MDT
Labels: auction rate securities, Fraud, Merrill Lynch
Just what Merrill needed, more bad news.
Details via The Times, Online.-- MDt
Labels: front running, Merrill Lynch
The goal being to determine
how much of that $2.3 billion dollar loss Merrill saw coming and how honest they were about the gathering storm.
-- MDT
Labels: Merrill Lynch, SEC, sub-prime mortgage