An investment manager has pleaded guilty to bribing managers of New York State's pension fund, in order to get its business. Elliott Broidy, chairman of Markstone Capital Partners, made nearly $1 million in gifts to state workers and their families. WNYC's Lisa Chow reports.

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In their Main Streets Project, the WNYC Newsroom is following six blocks over an entire year to track how the economic downturn is being felt at street level. Main Streets editor Karen Frillman is joined by reporters Jenna Flanagan, Lisa Chow, Richard Yeh, Brigid Bergin, and Ailsa Chang to discuss ...

As we head into the biggest retail month of the year, getting people out to the stores is one concern among store owners. Another concern is the weather. WNYC's Lisa Chow reports.

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Millions of Americans take to the road every Thanksgiving, and for many New Yorkers it's in a bus. Competition among bus companies has intensified this year with big multinationals jumping in and selling one-way tickets to Boston, Philadelphia and Washington for as cheap as $1. WNYC's Lisa Chow reports.

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First day of hearings at City Hall on a controversial bill that would require businesses in New York City to give their employees paid sick time. And budget problems in New York City.

Guests: WNYC’s Cindy Rodriguez and Bob Hennelly.

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner sat down with a handful of financial bloggers to talk about the White House's push to change the way the U.S. financial system is regulated. Guests: John Jansen runs the blog, Across the Curve, which is focused on the bond markets. Michael Panzner's book and blog ...

The trial of two former Bear Stearns hedge fund managers ended in acquittals. WNYC reporter Lisa Chow recaps the Bear Stearns trial and analyzes its impact. Then, William Cohan, contributing Fortune editor and author of House of Cards: A Tale of Hubris and Wretched Excess on Wall ...

Two former Bear Stearns hedge fund managers were found not guilty on fraud and conspiracy charges in the first criminal trial of Wall Street executives to emerge out of the collapse of the subprime mortgage market. Ralph Cioffi and Matthew Tannin were accused of misleading investors in the months leading ...

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The body of evidence is largely electronic in form, with one exception.

In May 2007, Jason Bunin scribbled 'Ralph 5.5mm in Enhanced' into a notebook during an early morning meeting with Ralph Cioffi and Matthew Tannin. Bunin was an ...

WNYC reporter Lisa Chow recaps the Bear Stearns trial and analyzes its impact.

A jury in Brooklyn will begin deliberating today in the first criminal trial of Wall Street executives related to the subprime mortgage crisis. Ralph Cioffi and Matt Tannin managed two hedge funds at Bear Stearns that collapsed, eight months before the investment bank, itself, collapsed. WNYC's Lisa Chow reports.

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A jury in Brooklyn will begin deliberating today, in the trial of Ralph Cioffi and Matthew Tannin, the first Wall Street executives to face criminal charges stemming from the financial crisis. Cioffi and Tannin ran two hedge funds at Bear Stearns that were heavily invested in subprime mortgage-related securities. The ...

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At the end of a nearly three-hour closing argument, defendant Matthew Tannin's lawyer, Susan Brune, broke down in tears, pleading with the jurors to 'send Matt home to his family.' The jury will begin deliberating on the securities ...

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Matthew Tannin's eyes moistened and his face reddened as Ralph Cioffi's lawyer, Dane Butswinkas, read an excerpt of the infamous email note that Tannin wrote to Cioffi on April 22, 2007, before the collapse of the funds ...

Closing arguments have wrapped up in the first criminal trial of former Wall Street executives related to the subprime mortgage crisis. Ralph Cioffi and Matthew Tannin are accused of misleading investors about the health of their Bear Stearns hedge funds, which collapsed in the summer of 2007. WNYC’s Lisa Chow ...

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In his closing argument today, Ralph Cioffi's lawyer, Dane Butswinkas, cited several instances where he believed the government omitted pertinent information and was thus building its case on 'misimpressions.' Butswinkas told the jurors repeatedly, 'It’s the type of ...

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After more than three weeks of often times confusing testimony from lenders, investors, and former Bear Stearns employees, federal prosecutor Ilene Jaroslaw summed up the U.S. government's case against Ralph Cioffi, 53, and Matthew Tannin, 48, in two and ...

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Maybe 75 cents? $10? How about $1 million?

Judge Frederic Block raised this question with two investors who lost money in the collapse of the Bear Stearns hedge funds. Both testified for the government this week ...

Glenn Hubbard, dean at Columbia Business School and former economic advisor to President Bush, testified that defendants Ralph Cioffi and Matthew Tannin 'pursued a strategy that was well articulated and quite conventional,' in the first criminal trial of Wall Street executives related to ...

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He's the highest-ranking former Bear Stearns executive to testify in this trial so far: Rich Marin, former chairman and CEO of Bear Stearns Asset Management.

Marin supervised Ralph Cioffi, 53, and Matthew Tannin, 48, who are accused of lying ...