Erik Larson

Sterne Agee Group, one of the fastest-growing brokerages in the South, sued its former chief executive officer over claims he took his corporate credit card on a decade-long spending spree for fishing boats, a yacht, a vacation condominium and ownership in a luxury ski chalet.

A former Credit Suisse managing director for investment banking who had pleaded guilty to lying about the value of mortgage-backed bonds in 2007, avoided time in prison after cooperating with prosecutors.

Five former aides to Bernard Madoff who spent decades working for his firm were found guilty of helping run the biggest Ponzi scheme in U.S. history, a $17.5 billion fraud exposed by the 2008 financial crisis.

Credit Suisse Group AG sued its former vice president of emerging markets, Agostina Pechi, over claims she stole the bank’s trade secrets in a bid to win clients for her new employer, Goldman Sachs Group Inc.

Ronald Greenidge, the former UBS AG managing director fired for gross misconduct in his supervision of convicted trader Kweku Adoboli, sued the bank claiming it treated him more harshly than others because he’s black.