Scattered among the witnesses who had pled guilty were investors who lost money.
Nasdaq officials said they can't compensate retail-brokerage clients who lost money on Facebook shares.
Weiss' family partnership even applied to represent all shareholders who have lost money in Exegenics.
But in 1787, the government bailed out investors who had lost money in a speculative share deal.
Most investors who lost money in Enron, Worldcom or other scams did not invest directly in these companies.
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Others under consideration: disgruntled security guards or Olympic vendors who lost money during the Games, sources close to the case have told CNN.
After the Icelandic bank Landsbanki collapsed in October 2008, both the British and Dutch governments decided to compensate more than 340, 000 customers who had lost money.
Speaking to MPs on the Energy and Climate Change Committee, the company's deputy chief executive, Alistair Phillips-Davies, promised to compensate customers who lost money as a result.
In the mid 2000s, private plaintiffs and state attorneys general sued insurers for alleged unsuitable sales of the products to elderly people who lost money because of the withdrawal penalties.
In the British Airways lawsuits, lawyers representing a pair of flower importers tried to enlarge the class to include hundreds of additional plaintiffs who supposedly lost money due to the air-freight cartel.
While many of those who lost money or property because of Nazi tyranny are belatedly about to get compensation, the vast majority of those who lost their lives will forever be denied justice.
Pataki has asked the U.S. Treasury to issue "guidance, " which would grant investors who lost money in Bernard Madoff's alleged Ponzi scheme better tax treatment than has been allowed to victims of past frauds.
How is it that the first substantive legal action attempting to assign accountability for the massive destruction of wealth caused by the sub-prime mortgage meltdown was taken not by the investors who lost money, but by the government?
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Some of these payouts, like the latest, were negotiated by the most expensive lawyers on earth: Class-action firms, which specialize in assembling lawsuits in the wake of significant negative news and convincing judges to appoint them to represent all the shareholders who lost money as a result.
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The challenge with restitution, the government has argued, would be that it would be too great a burden to hunt down all of the investors because most of them are in the U.K. Had I been an investor who lost money, I would have spoken up a long time ago!
One of the reasons Mr Straw commissioned the Edwards report is that Jersey's regulatory system has recently attracted criticism from a group of international investors who lost money in an investment fraud, discovered in late 1993, involving the Jersey arm of Bank Cantrade, a subsidiary of the Union Bank of Switzerland.
However, the regulator believes that as they were just the victims who complained, there were probably many more people who would have lost much more money in total.
So far, 16, 394 claims have been filed by investors who say they lost money.
So why do we continue to romanticize the story of an investor who lost as much money as he ever made?
"Yeah, my house price declined, " says Dana Johnson, chief economist for Comerica Bank, who says he lost money on his house when he was transferred from the Detroit area to Dallas last year.
Without an objective audience vote on winners and losers, our best way of determining who won and who lost will be determined by post-debate polls, who is able to continue raising money and compete in the months ahead, and who drops out of the race.
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In the case of casino gambling, you should keep a diary, including information like slot machine or table number, and the names of people who were present when you lost money.
As my Forbes colleague Dan Fischer points out, while rogue traders get jail, high-ranking executives who lost other banks far more money through bad bets on mortgage-backed securities, got decent pensions, largely because they operated within company rules.
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BP's offer to settle quickly might be a savvy move if Kenneth Feinberg, the special master hired by the Obama administration to oversee the fund, can obtain ironclad releases from the shrimpers, hotel owners and thousands of other people who claim they've lost money because of the spill.
Only 3 percent of workers near the poverty level who are eligible for COBRA opt to keep their insurance, compared to 14 percent of workers who made more money before they lost their job.
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Shareholders who bought at the opening lost about half their money in nine months.
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Over the past three years, those who have acted out of fear have generally lost money.
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