New Century Financial Corporation

Targeting executives of the housing boom's biggest stated-income lender, the Securities and Exchange Commission has accused former IndyMac Bancorp Chief Executive Michael W. Perry and two former chief financial officers of defrauding investors at the...

In the search for who to blame for the financial-system meltdown, some names show up on any short list more often than others. Some of those individuals will be testifying in Washington over the next three days at hearings called......

ROLLING HILLS ESTATES -- Investigators have determined that the death of a prominent Los Angeles attorney was a homicide. Los Angeles County sheriff's Lt. Dave Dolson said Thursday that detectives had ruled out suicide in the death of Jeffrey Tidus,...

Detectives were trying Tuesday to sort out the mysterious death of a prominent Los Angeles attorney found fatally shot in the frontyard of his home in an affluent Palos Verdes Peninsula suburb. Jeffrey Tidus, an attorney with Baute & Tidus,......

Los Angeles County sheriff's detectives today are trying to sort out a mystery in upscale Rolling Hills Estates after a prominent attorney was fatally shot on the lawn of his home. Neighbors identified the man as Jeffrey Tidus, an attorney......

It's official. Irvine coffee wholesaler Diedrich Coffee Inc. has agreed to be swallowed by Green Mountain Coffee Roasters Inc., Jerry Hirsch writes this morning. Green Mountain's $290-million offer ended a nearly two-month bidding war with rival Peet's...

Los Angeles County sheriff's detectives today are trying to sort out a mystery in upscale Rolling Hills Estates after a prominent attorney was fatally shot on the lawn of his home. Neighbors identified the man as Jeffrey Tidus, an attorney with Baute &...

Jerry and Carol Ptacek bounced from one cramped apartment to another most of their adult lives, so they could hardly believe their luck when they were able to buy a San Bernardino house for the bargain price of $63,000. Nine years later, they are renters...

Edward Gotschall, one of the founders of subprime mortgage giant New Century Financial, died Thursday at his home in Cota de Caza. He was 53. The former high school football standout, who retired as New Century's chief financial officer, was watching a...

As the cost of Wall Street's credit crisis has mounted, the hunt for villains has intensified and the accusations of fault have widened. At first the focus was on greedy profiteers among lenders and investment bankers, who were an easy (and deserving)...

NEW YORK -- Transforming the face of Wall Street, two major securities firms succumbed Sunday to the country's long-running mortgage crisis as Merrill Lynch & Co. agreed to a hastily arranged, $50-billion takeover by Bank of America Corp. and Lehman Bros....

By David Streitfeld, Times Staff Writer Oscar De Leon was washing his car a few weeks ago when he noticed a piece of paper stuck to the front door of the house across the street. He strolled over to check it out. "You are in default," the paper...