Reported by Milena Thomas (Excerpt shared below. To read full report, go to: https://www.briefs.co/news/swedbank-s-50m-payment-ends-long-running-u-s-money-launderin/) Swedbank just wrote the last check in a long U.S. legal saga. The Stockholm-based lender paid $50 million to New York’s financial watchdog, the Department of Financial Services. That $50 million payment brought to a close a U.S. probe that had lasted seven […]

Reported by Dan Mangan (Excerpt shared below. To read full report, go to: https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2026/07/15/new-jersey-deli-fraud-james-patten-sentencing-request.html) The final defendant awaiting sentencing in the brazen $100 million New Jersey deli stock manipulation case is asking a judge to give him no prison time — despite having a prior felony conviction that got him locked up. A lawyer for the […]