Officials: Single futures trader orchestrated $7.14 billion fraud

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Societe Generale uncovered a $7.14 billion fraud - one of history’s biggest - by a single futures trader who orchestrated a series of bogus transactions that spiraled out of control amid roiling markets this week, the French bank said …

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Marine indicted in pregnant colleague's killing

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A prosecutor offered a deal Thursday to Mexican authorities and a Marine wanted in the killing a 20-year-old pregnant colleague: If he is arrested in Mexico, he won’t face lethal injection in North Carolina.

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