Tom Polansek

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Peregrine Financial Group's chief executive used company funds to pay for a $4.5 million life insurance policy, a lawyer for the failed brokerage's bankruptcy trustee said on...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Peregrine Financial Group's chief executive used company funds to pay for a $4.5 million life insurance policy, a lawyer for the failed brokerage's bankruptcy trustee said on...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Russell Wasendorf Sr., chief executive of failed brokerage Peregrine Financial Group, had $6.9 million in life insurance and a debt on his private jet when he attempted...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Russell Wasendorf Sr., chief executive of failed brokerage Peregrine Financial Group, had $6.9 million in life insurance and a debt on his private jet when he attempted...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - CME Group Inc , the biggest operator of U.S. futures exchanges, wants all customer money to be held at clearinghouses or other depositories in order to keep...

CHICAGO/CEDAR FALLS, Iowa (Reuters) - Peregrine Financial Group Chief Executive Russell Wasendorf Sr., who last week confessed to bilking futures customers of more than $100 million, owned a jet plane...

Russell Wasendorf Sr., the founder and chief executive of failed futures brokerage Peregrine Financial, was arrested on Friday, five days after his suicide attempt brought to light allegations of a...

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa/CHICAGO (Reuters) - Russell Wasendorf Sr, arrested on Friday, confessed to a 20-year fraud at his now-bankrupt Iowa brokerage, saying business troubles and his "big" ego left him...