NY AG probes auction-rate securities

NY AG launches Wall Street rumor probe
New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo announced Thursday he is looking into whether traders spread false information in an effort to drive down...

Did Short-Selling Contribute To The Financial Mess?
The Securities and Exchange Commission took the dramatic step early Friday of temporarily banning the routine practice of betting against company...

UBS hit with New York auction-rate security suit
New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo Thursday brought a multi-billion dollar civil lawsuit against the Swiss banking giant UBS for allegedly...

Verizon offers details of Usenet deletion: alt.* groups, others...
New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo says he found child porn on 88 Usenet newsgroups. As a result, Verizon is deleting tens of thousands of them,...

ISPs agree to block access to child porn sites, newsgroups
Internet service providers Verizon, Sprint, and Time Warner Cable have agreed to block Internet newsgroups and Web sites nationwide that disseminate...