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In Conference Call For ‘SVM Global Initiative,’ Speaker Makes Veiled Reference To UFunClub Cross-Border Scheme Under Investigation In Thailand: Are North American ‘Sovereign Citizens’ At Work?

In Conference Call For 'SVM Global Initiative,' Speaker Makes Veiled Reference To UFunClub Cross-Border Scheme Under Investigation In Thailand: Are North American 'Sovereign Citizens' At Work?

Are “sovereign citizens” immersed in the “SVM Global Initiative” and “UFunClub” cross-border, network-marketing schemes? “Sovereign citizens” may have an irrational belief that laws do not apply to them. It is not unusual for them to be involved in financial fraud, and some “sovereigns” have been linked to MLM HYIP frauds and securities offering frauds. Individuals […]

FEDS: Liberty Reserve Figure Mark Marmilev Shilled On TalkGold Ponzi Forum And Also Hired Shills To Do So; Memo Speaks To Vast Wasteland Of Online Criminality

FEDS: Liberty Reserve Figure Mark Marmilev Shilled On TalkGold Ponzi Forum And Also Hired Shills To Do So; Memo Speaks To Vast Wasteland Of Online Criminality

Mark Marmilev, the technology specialist for the cross-border Liberty Reserve money-laundering operation favored by HYIP scammers and other criminals before its May 2013 collapse, shilled on the TalkGold Ponzi forum, U.S. federal prosecutors said in a sentencing memo. Marmilev, 35, of Brooklyn, N.Y., also hired forum shills and separately tried to hatch an SEO scheme […]

URGENT >> BULLETIN >> MOVING: First U.S. Criminal Prosecution Of Bitcoin-Themed Scheme; Trendon Shavers Arrested

URGENT >> BULLETIN >> MOVING: First U.S. Criminal Prosecution Of Bitcoin-Themed Scheme; Trendon Shavers Arrested

In the first U.S. criminal prosecution involving a Bitcoin-themed scheme, Trendon Shavers has been arrested and charged with securities fraud and wire fraud. Shavers, 32, of McKinney, Texas, was charged civilly by the SEC in July 2013. He is known as “pirateat40,”  and allegedly pushed his Bitcoin Savings and Trust Ponzi scheme from a forum. […]

URGENT >> BULLETIN >> MOVING: Liberty Reserve, Founder, Others Indicted In New York

URGENT >> BULLETIN >> MOVING: Liberty Reserve, Founder, Others Indicted In New York

URGENT >> BULLETIN >> MOVING: (15TH UPDATE 2:31 P.M. EDT U.S.A.) Liberty Reserve, its founder and several others have been indicted in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York (Manhattan). The charges, which include conspiracy to commit money-laundering, conspiracy to operate an unlicensed money-transmitting business and operating an unlicensed money-transmitting business, were […]

BULLETIN: Purported ‘Sovereign’ Indicted On Charges Of Threatening To Kill Public Officials: ‘Your Dirt Nap Is Coming Very Soon’

BULLETIN: Purported 'Sovereign' Indicted On Charges Of Threatening To Kill Public Officials: 'Your Dirt Nap Is Coming Very Soon'

BULLETIN: A purported “sovereign citizen” from Nanuet, N.Y., has been charged under state law with criminal possession of a weapon and under federal law with threatening to kill public officials and inciting Facebook visitors to carry out political assassinations. Lawrence Mulqueen, 49, claimed that a county’s sheriff is “the highest law enforcer in all the […]

FEDS: Man Tried To Scam Zuckerberg, Facebook Out Of Billions ‘By Marching Into Federal Court For A Quick Payday Based On A Blatant Forgery’

FEDS: Man Tried To Scam Zuckerberg, Facebook Out Of Billions 'By Marching Into Federal Court For A Quick Payday Based On A Blatant Forgery'

A New York man tried to scam Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook out of billions of dollars by forging documents and filing a lawsuit to make it appear as though Zuckerberg had promised him a 50 percent share of the company, prosecutors said. Paul Ceglia, 39, of Wellsville, was arrested this morning after an investigation by […]

Feds Arrest Alleged North Carolina Securities Scammer After SEC Sues Him; More Than $2 Million Allegedly Linked To WWebnet Lost After Being Transferred To Cayman Islands, Prosecutors Say; Robert Kelly Lied To Investors And Software-Development Team, FBI Says

Feds Arrest Alleged North Carolina Securities Scammer After SEC Sues Him; More Than $2 Million Allegedly Linked To WWebnet Lost After Being Transferred To Cayman Islands, Prosecutors Say; Robert Kelly Lied To Investors And Software-Development Team, FBI Says

“The audacity of this defendant’s alleged scheme was matched by its simplicity. He solicited and obtained millions of dollars from investors and simply pocketed the money for personal use. He told investors they were funding software development, then told his development team he hadn’t found investors.” — FBI Acting Assistant Director-in-Charge Mary Galligan, Oct. 3, […]

Florida Recidivist Swindler John A. Mattera Pleads Guilty In Fraud Scheme That Traded On Names Of Facebook And Groupon

Florida Recidivist Swindler John A. Mattera Pleads Guilty In Fraud Scheme That Traded On Names Of Facebook And Groupon

John A. Mattera, the recidivist Boca Raton swindler who was charged civilly and criminally last year in a new caper, has pleaded guilty to one count of securities fraud, one count of wire fraud and one count of conspiracy to commit securities fraud and wire fraud, federal prosecutors said. He potentially faces decades in prison. […]

Raymond Bitar, Full Tilt Poker CEO, Arrested; Gambling Site Linked To THREE U.S. Banks That Failed, Feds Say; ‘The On-Line Casino Become An Internet Ponzi Scheme,’ Top FBI Official Says

Raymond Bitar, Full Tilt Poker CEO, Arrested; Gambling Site Linked To THREE U.S. Banks That Failed, Feds Say; 'The On-Line Casino Become An Internet Ponzi Scheme,' Top FBI Official Says

Three vulnerable U.S. banks that processed illegal gambling payments for Full Tilt Poker in exchange for investments in the institutions later failed, federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York said yesterday. The failures of Sunfirst Bank in St. George, Utah, and All American Bank and New City Bank — both of which were […]

UNBELIEVABLE: In Alarming Fraud Allegations, Feds Say HUD-Insured Loans Issued Through Allied Home Mortgage Corp. Led To Huge Losses For U.S. Taxpayers — While Firm Used Tax Break And Virgin Islands ‘Quality-Control’ Employees Who ‘Did Not Know What HUD Was Or Even What A Mortgage Was’

UNBELIEVABLE: In Alarming Fraud Allegations, Feds Say HUD-Insured Loans Issued Through Allied Home Mortgage Corp. Led To Huge Losses For U.S. Taxpayers -- While Firm Used Tax Break And Virgin Islands 'Quality-Control' Employees Who 'Did Not Know What HUD Was Or Even What A Mortgage Was'

BULLETIN: Federal prosecutors in New York have filed a civil complaint against Allied Home Mortgage Capital Corp.,  Allied Home Mortgage Corp. and two Allied executives that alleges the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) was put on the hook for at least $834 million in losses because of fraud at Allied. Part of […]

2 X BIZARRE: (1) SEC Says New York Man Used Proceeds From Unregistered Offering To Pay Restitution In Criminal Case; (2) Feds Say Philly Man Illegally Used Investor’s Funds To Pay For ‘Joy To The World’ Gala And Make Purported ‘Gold’ Purchase In West Africa

2 X BIZARRE: (1) SEC Says New York Man Used Proceeds From Unregistered Offering To Pay Restitution In Criminal Case; (2) Feds Say Philly Man Illegally Used Investor's Funds To Pay For 'Joy To The World' Gala And Make Purported 'Gold' Purchase In West Africa

EDITOR’S NOTE: If you’ve been wondering whether there was any ceiling to the bizarre nature of securities-fraud cases as the white-collar fraud epidemic continues, it perhaps is best to stop wondering now . . . A New York man has been accused by the SEC of using the proceeds of an unregistered offering for StratoComm […]