Court Finds Wayne Palmer Guilty in Ponzi Scheme
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) won a case involving a Ponzi scheme. According to the SEC Wayne Palmer and his company National Note of…
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SEC Issues Subpoena to NetCirq LLC
On November 25, 2015, the SEC filed a subpoena enforcement action against NetCirq, LLC (“NetCirq”). According to the SEC’s application and supporting papers, the…
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Cry Me a Sater…Felix Sater & Donald Trump
In February 2015, Felix Sater proudly announced the debut of a new website. As he puts it, it “showcases [his] accomplishments,…
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Court Enters Final Judgment In Penny Stock Case
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced that the Court entered a final judgment against Defendant Chad Smanjak on November 23, 2015…
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SEC Acquires Court Order for an Asset Freeze for Lin Zhong
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced on November 19, 2015 that it has obtained a court order freezing the assets of…
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SEC Announces Emergency Halt on Fraudster’s Operations
On December 1, 2015 the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced the entry of a Consent Order (“Order”) halting an alleged ongoing…
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Court Enters Final Judgment Against Prima Capital Group
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced that on September 29, 2015, a final judgment was entered against Efstratios “Elias” Argyropoulos of…
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SEC Charges Two Bitcoin Companies for Operating a Ponzi Scheme
On December 1, 2015 the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) charged two Bitcoin mining companies and their founder with conducting a…
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SEC Obtains Asset Freeze In EB-5 Scam
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced an asset freeze obtained against two people in San Bernardino, California accused of defrauding Chinese…
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Court Enters Final Judgment Against Tropikgadget In Pyramid Scheme
On November 12, 2015, a federal court in Boston, Massachusetts, entered a final judgment against Tropikgadget FZE and Tropikgadget Unipessoal LDA (collectively, “Tropikgadget”) of…
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Steven Watson Charged with Insider Trading – Securities Attorneys
On November 17, 2015 the Securities and Exchange Commission charged Steven Watson with insider trading fraud, claiming he illegally profited from news of a…
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SEC Obtains Final Judgment Against EB-5 Attorneys
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced that it has obtained final judgments against a former Los Angeles-based immigration attorney, his wife,…
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Court Enters Final Judgment Against 5 Companies and Owner
On November 12, 2015 the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced that the Court awarded summary judgment and entered a final judgment…
Read More5 Star Commercial, 5 Star Capital, and Operator Earl Miller Charged with Fraud
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced that on November 5, 2015 an emergency enforcement action was filed in federal district court…
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SEC Charges EB-5 Offering Attorneys – Securities Lawyer 101
On December 7, 2015 the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced a series of enforcement actions against lawyers across the country charged with offering…
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Zhichen Zhou and Yannan Liu Charged with Insider Trading
On November 10, 2015 the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced insider trading charges and an emergency asset freeze against cousins Zhichen Zhou…
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Judgment Entered Against James Louks and FiberPop Solutions
On November 9, 2015, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced that on November 4, 2015 the Court entered a partial judgment…
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SEC Complaint Charges For Phony Muddy Waters Tweets
On November 6, 2015, the SEC announced that it charged James Alan Craig (Craig) with a market manipulation scheme. The SEC filed…
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SEC Identifies Three More to Charge in Penny Stock Case
On November 4, 2015, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced it has identified three more individuals to charge in a penny…
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Court Approves Insurance Company’s Final Distribution
On September 30, 2015 the Court approved final distribution that concluded the receivership in the SEC’s litigation against Provident Capital Indemnity, Ltd.…
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Vlad Spivnak Charged with Insider Trading
The SEC has announced charges against Vlad Spivnak for insider trading in the stock of American Dental Partners, Inc. (ADPI), a dental practice management company. The complaint…
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William Apostelos and His Companies Charged with Fraud
The SEC released charges on October 30, 2015 alleging that William Apostelos and his companies, WMA Enterprises, Midwest Green Resources, and OVO…
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Diverse Financial and Principals Charged with Fraud
The SEC filed fraud charges against Diverse Financial Corporation, its CEO, Roy Dekel, and its former President David Kendell on October 28, 2015.…
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SEC Obtains Asset Freeze Over Joseph Gabalon
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filed a civil action against defendants Ascenergy LLC and its CEO, Joseph Gabaldon for offering fraudulent…
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Rebecca Norton Insider Trading Settlement Approved
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced that, on October 27, 2015, the United States District Court for the District of Arizona…
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Brown Investment Advisors Charged with Operating Three Offering Frauds
A settled civil injunctive action was filed by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) against two Pennsylvania investment advisers, Kevin Brown and his…
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John Williams Charged with Conducting Misappropriation Scheme and Offering Fraud
On October 20, 2015, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) charged John Clifford Williams with his involvement in a misappropriation scheme. The…
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Court Reaches Final Judgement of Disgorgement and Civil Penalties Against Stock Fraudsters
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced on October 26, 2015 that on October 23, 2015, the United States District Court for…
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Why Operation Shell Expel Gets an F
Between January of 2000 and present, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") has suspended or halted thousands of publicly traded companies under…
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Settlement Reached in Vladimir Eydelman Insider Trading Case
On October 23, 2015 the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced a settlement with a stockbroker who was previously charged with insider trading in advance…
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