Judge Asks Credit Suisse Broker To Return $2M

By Morgan Bettex

Law360, New York (September 29, 2008, 12:00 AM ET) -- A federal judge reportedly asked a former Credit Suisse Group AG broker on Friday to return $2 million he sent to his home country of Bulgaria as he was being investigated by federal authorities for fraudulently selling auction rate securities.

At a conference held Friday in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, Judge Jack Weinstein asked indicted Bulgarian citizen Julian Tzolov to deposit the money in an escrow account, Reuters reported. The judge also scheduled the start of Tzolov's trial for...
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