Erik Larson

September 22, 2022 | Daily Business Review

New York Attorney General Letitia James is accusing former President Donald Trump of inflating his asset values by billions of dollars to obtain favorable loan terms and other financial benefits.

By Anthony Lin and Erik Larson

6 minute read

December 08, 2017 | Daily Business Review

A former UBS Group AG senior strategist who now makes ends meet with an hourly job at a grocery store says the Swiss bank's planned financing for…

By Erik Larson, Bloomberg News

7 minute read

July 10, 2014 | Daily Business Review

Bank of America, Citigroup and Wells Fargo won dismissal of lawsuits brought by the city of Miami claiming they flooded minority neighborhoods with predatory mortgages.

By Erik Larson

3 minute read

May 16, 2013 | Daily Report Online

A Harvard Medical School research assistant who went on to serve as a U.S. judge for 23 years now finds herself at the center of the Boston Marathon bombing case, and by extension the post 9-11 issue of whether, and when, suspected terrorists should benefit from constitutional rights.

By Erik Larson, Greg Farrell and Janelle Lawrence

11 minute read

July 21, 2011 | Daily Report Online

Rupert Murdoch and his son James told U.K. lawmakers that resolution of a phone-hacking scandal at News Corp.'s British unit was delayed because they relied on a clean bill of health from the law firm Harbottle Lewis. The law firm, based in London, has clients including Diageo Plc, Vodafone Group Plc and model Kate Moss, according to its website.

By Erik Larson and Lindsay Fortado

5 minute read

October 16, 2013 | Daily Report Online

Five former employees of Bernard L. Madoff on trial over allegations they aided in his $17 billion fraud probably scrapped plea talks involving harsh prison terms to gamble for total exoneration from a jury, ex-prosecutors said.

By Erik Larson

6 minute read

February 16, 2009 | Daily Report Online

Bernard Madoff's defense attorney, Ira "Ike" Sorkin, may have a conflict of interest defending his client in a $50 billion fraud case because the lawyer's parents invested with Madoff until 2007, according to ethics experts. The investment, which came to light as part of a list of Madoff clients filed in federal court, was an individual retirement account opened by Sorkin's father and inherited by his mother in 2001, Sorkin said.

By Erik Larson

6 minute read