securities fraud

BOSTON (MedPage Today) -- French physician Yves Benhamou has been arrested and charged with securities fraud after allegedly providing a hedge fund with information about adverse events in a drug trial for which he was an adviser.

Continuing with our annals of health care crime, Bloomberg.com reported a new verdict on a very old case:

Former McKesson Corp.

Chairman Charles McCall was convicted in a second trial of participating in a fraud 10 years ago that cost investors $8.6 billion, one of the largest white-collar crimes at the time.