UPDATE 1-U.S. prosecutors dealt dual setbacks in mortgage bond fraud crackdown
May 03, 2018 at 12:00 PM EDT
May 3 (Reuters) - U.S. prosecutors on Thursday suffered dual setbacks in a crackdown targeting deceptive mortgage bond trading practices as a federal appeals court overturned an ex-Jefferies Group trader's conviction and a jury acquitted a former Cantor Fitzgerald employee.