Day: December 7, 2010
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BULLETIN: Company That Did Business With Steve Renner’s Cash Cards International Charged In Massive Forex Swindle; Case Against MXBK Group S.A. De CV Grew Out Of Cooperative Probe Among SEC, CFTC, FBI And IRS; SEC Charges Pitchmen With Blindly Promoting Scam, Even After Collapse
BULLETIN: UPDATED 9:18 A.M. ET (U.S.A., DEC. 8.) A Mexican company listed as a customer of Steve Renner’s Cash Cards International (CCI) in a 2005 scam known as MegaFund now has been charged by the CFTC with running a massive Forex fraud scheme that gathered at least $28 million from more than 800 U.S. customers.…
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BULLETIN: Former Pastor Sentenced To 54 Years In Indiana Ponzi And Affinity Fraud Scheme; Investors Believed They Were Funding Church-Building Projects
BULLETIN: Vaughn Reeves has been sentenced to 54 years in prison after bilking Christians in a $120 million Ponzi- and affinity-fraud scheme in Indiana. Reeves, a former church pastor, is 66. He told investors in Alanar Inc. that it was their “Christian responsibility” to become pitchmen for his then-undiscovered bond scheme. Congregants believed they were…