TD Ameritrade Settles for $456 Million in Auction-Rate Securities Suit

In a settlement with New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo announced Monday, TD Ameritrade agreed to return some $456 million to roughly 4,000 customers who bought now-frozen auction-rate securities. Also Monday, Cuomo announced that his office intends to file fraud charges against Charles Schwab & Co. if a similar matter is not resolved by Friday. The SEC is pursuing another downstream broker, Morgan Keegan, with a civil suit filed in federal court in Georgia on Tuesday.