{"id":4327,"date":"2010-02-04T15:27:29","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T20:27:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=4327"},"modified":"2011-02-17T16:26:22","modified_gmt":"2011-02-17T21:26:22","slug":"bofa-sued-for-securities-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2010\/02\/04\/bofa-sued-for-securities-fraud\/","title":{"rendered":"BofA sued for securities fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-4350\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2010\/02\/Bank-of-American-logo-2-150x131.jpg\" alt=\"Bank of American logo 2\" width=\"150\" height=\"131\" \/>Bank of America (and its then CEO and CFO) is being <a title=\"sued\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/02\/05\/business\/05cuomo.html?dbk\" target=\"_blank\">sued <\/a>by New York&#8217;s attorney general for securities fraud for misleading shareholders and the government about BofA&#8217;s merger with Merrill Lynch.\u00a0 Law Professor <a title=\"Tamar Frankel\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/faculty\/profiles\/bios\/full-time\/frankel_t.html\" target=\"_blank\">Tamar Frankel<\/a>, an authorities on securities law and legal ethics and author of &#8220;<em>Trust and Honesty: America&#8217;s Business Culture at a Crossroad<\/em>,&#8221; says this civil court trial should be enlightening.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe value of the attorney general of New York&#8217;s proceedings against Bank of America executives may be in the exposure of the way in which the managers of other people&#8217;s money dealt with other people&#8217;s money.\u00a0 We ought to know; they perhaps ought to understand.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Contact Tamar Frankel, 617-353-3773, tfrankel@bu.edu<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bank of America (and its then CEO and CFO) is being sued by New York&#8217;s attorney general for securities fraud for misleading shareholders and the government about BofA&#8217;s merger with Merrill Lynch.\u00a0 Law Professor Tamar Frankel, an authorities on securities law and legal ethics and author of &#8220;Trust and Honesty: America&#8217;s Business Culture at a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4491],"tags":[2378,752,2377,2308],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4327"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4327"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8149,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4327\/revisions\/8149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}