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November 13, 2014
James Peister, an investment fund manager from St. James, New York, pleaded guilty in federal court this week to securities fraud, having run a Ponzi scheme that lasted almost a decade and bilked inve...
November 7, 2014
Trendon Shavers of McKinney, Texas, operator of Bitcoin Savings and Trust, was charged yesterday with defrauding investors in what authorities are calling the first federal criminal securities fraud c...
November 6, 2014
David Topping, 19, of Oak Island, North Carolina has been charged with securities fraud after being accused of defrauding investors, including a number of retirees, out of over $130,000. The teen was ...
October 31, 2014
Carl David Wright of Iron Station, North Carolina was sentenced Tuesday to four years imprisonment for operating a Ponzi scheme that defrauded investors out of $1 million. He will remain out on bond u...
October 30, 2014
John C. Boschert of Apopka, Florida pleaded guilty yesterday to fraud for his role in a Ponzi scheme operated out of Clermont, Florida under the name Assured Capital Consultants. Boschert agreed to pa...
October 27, 2014
Tiger Woods Foundation Inc. and Tiger Woods Charity Event Corp., charities founded by golfing legend Tiger Woods, may be sued for unknowingly receiving donations acquired from a Ponzi scheme. The orga...
October 21, 2014
The U.S. Supreme Court decided yesterday that it would not hear appeals from two former senior executives of Duane Reade Inc. The appeals follow the executives’ 2010 securities fraud convictions...
October 20, 2014
Louis Gallo, former vice president of Commodities Online LLC, a Florida-based investment company, was sentenced last week to fourteen years imprisonment and ordered to pay nearly $20 million in restit...
October 17, 2014
Richard L. Pearson, a broker affiliated with Rothstein Rosenfeldt Adler PA and alleged to have played a role in Scott Rothstein’s $1.2 billion Ponzi scheme, pleaded guilty in Florida federal cou...
October 16, 2014
The SEC adopted a rule that will allow securities arbitrators to immediately disclose frauds that have the potential to threaten the investing public when they learn of such frauds in the midst of a c...
October 15, 2014
Frank Spinosa, a former vice president of TD Bank from Fort Lauderdale, is facing a potential 20 year imprisonment sentence if convicted on charges made by the FBI in relation to an extensive Ponzi sc...
October 14, 2014
Robert Dane Freeman, a former investment advisor from Flat Rock, North Carolina, was arrested and arraigned last week, having been alleged to be a co-conspirator in a securities fraud. Freeman is bein...
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