Ex-trader accused of fraud seeks to clear name on TV

A former Wall Street trader accused with associates of swindling more than $140 mln from investors is angling for his own reality television show, eager to prove his innocence in the court of public opinion.
Ross Mandell, former head of Sky Capital Holdings, was indicted in July 2009 on charges he and five others defrauded investors in a scheme U.S. prosecutors claim pressured people to buy stock from what they called a "transatlantic boiler room" with operations in London and New York.