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Former head of Florida company becomes first person sentenced in insurance fraud case

Recently unsealed court filings show that the former chief executive of MDWerks Inc. had been cooperating with federal authorities since being charged with health care fraud in December 2008. READ MORE

Surge in Chinese coal company's shares produces quick gain for private placement investors

A tenfold increase in the stock of SinoCoking Coal and Coke Chemical Industries Inc. has generated tens of millions of dollars in gains -- on paper, at least -- for investors in a private placement last month. READ MORE

Money and property seized from Who's Your Daddy executives

The government disclosed the seizures as part of its ongoing drug trafficking case in San Diego that includes one of the company's founders and former executives READ MORE

Rockwell Medical Technologies has close ties to financier facing SEC charges

Rockwell Medical hired Michael J. Xirinachs as a business-development and investor-relations consultant just before a surge in its shares. A year later, the warrants he received as compensation are worth $1.9 million more than their exercise price. READ MORE

Is notorious brokerage boss Harold Gallison back in the penny stock game?

Paper trail points to Gallison's possible involvement with former associate Kyle Rowe in a San Diego company that helps small companies go public. Both men have been barred by the Securities and Exchange Commission and the National Association of Securities Dealers (now FINRA). READ MORE