Securities and Exchange Commission News

BARRIE McKENNA Published on Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2009 12:00AM EST Last updated on Tuesday, Nov.

AMB Property Corporation announced today that its operating subsidiary, AMB Property, L.P. , intends to offer a new series of notes due 2016 and a new series of notes due 2019 in an underwritten registered public offering.

Soros Fund Management LLC, the hedge fund run by billionaire investor George Soros, increased its holdings in U.S. stocks to $6.2 billion from $4.2 billion and bought a stake in Ford Motor Co.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has charged four people in connection with an alleged $30 million Ponzi scheme that targeted more than 300 elderly and near retirement age investors who were seeking environmentally-friendly investments, reports the Philadelphia Business Journal .

The SEC further alleges that Tvia's former Chief Financial Officer Diane Bjorkstrom of Palo Alto, Calif., also played a role in Tvia's improper accounting, allowing Tvia to recognize revenue on merchandise shipped to a customer weeks before the customer had agreed to accept it, and failing to act on red flags surrounding Silva's misconduct.

Workers at AOL Inc. on Thursday got the news no one ever needs, but especially not in a recession.

A new development related to the government's investigation of possible insider trading at a major hedge fund has raised questions in the case and caught the attention of two key senators.

The Securities and Exchange Commission has charged a San Diego County man with securities fraud, saying he targeted Somali immigrants in San Diego and Seattle.

The possessions of a former North Carolina financier have drawn big bids at an auction.

Shares of Archipelago Learning are rising Friday after its initial public offering priced near the top of its expected range, raising $103.1 million.

Boots&Coots Inc., an oil and gas exploration company, said Tuesday it has filed a universal shelf registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission to sell $250 million in securities but has no immediate plans to do so.

Seven people accused of being involved in a massive real estate fraud scheme that bilked victims a ' including some in Tucson a ' out of $140 million were charged Thursday with numerous felonies in Riverside County, Calif.

A man accused of bilking thousands of Haitian-Americans of millions in an investment scam where he promised to create a "nation of Haitian millionaires" must pay civil penalties for the alleged Ponzi scheme.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission must tighten its process for deciding which investment advisers to inspect if it is to avoid colossal breakdowns like the one that allowed Bernard Madoff's multibillion-dollar fraud to go undetected for 16 years, the agency's inspector general says.

Cigarette maker Lorillard Inc. has begun seeking a successor to Chief Executive Martin L. Orlowsky, whose contract expires next year, the company said in a regulatory filing Thursday.

Microvision , Inc. , a global leader in light scanning technologies, today announced that it intends to offer to sell, subject to market and other conditions, shares of its common stock in an underwritten public offering.

The Securities and Exchange Commission has six "significant deficiencies" that prevented it from having effective internal controls over its financial reporting as of Sept.

Tenneco Inc. today announced that the public offering of 12,000,000 shares of its common stock has priced at $16.50 per share.

Officials with Venture Financial Group, the former bank-holding company for Venture Bank, said Tuesday in a federal filing that they won't file financial data for the third quarter of the year.

The Securities and Exchange Commission subpoenaed former state Investment Officer Gary Bland to testify earlier this year as part of an investigation into public investment funds.