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OBTAINED: Draft Of Complaint Some AdSurfDaily Members Say They’ll File Against D.C. Prosecutors In Florida; ‘Let The Games Begin!’ Declares Prospective Pro Se Litigant. Document Leads To Questions About Whether ASD Had A Special Class Of Members

Dear Readers, We are plugging our nose as we publish this document (link at bottom of post). You should know up front that we converted the document to PDF format after receiving it in Microsoft Word format. We did so based on the belief that many readers may not own Word but likely have a…

May 22, 2011
‘Offensive’ Claim Prompts Accused Schemer Pat Kiley To Ask Judge To Sanction Government Attorney And Award Cash To, Well . . . Pat Kiley

The civil litigation in the $194 million Trevor Cook Ponzi and Forex caper has taken a strange turn. Former radio host Pat Kiley, a Cook co-defendant in civil cases brought by the SEC and CFTC, has filed a pro se pleading asking Chief U.S. District Judge Michael J. Davis to order David Slovick, an attorney…

May 22, 2011
FLASH: Missouri Regulators Say Pet-Food Firm Sold Unregistered Securities In State And Now Is Raising Funds In California Under Different Name To Pay Back Investors

FLASH: In a complicated case unfolding in Missouri, regulators say pet-food firms operated by Frank Renick sold unregistered securities in the state under one set of names and that Renick is raising funds under a different corporate name through a California “cloud” office to pay back investors. Renick’s actual presence in California was a virtual office…

May 21, 2011
PROSECUTORS: California Man Hatched Ponzi Scheme And ‘Trust’ Scams — And Ripped Off His Elderly Mother’s Social Security Benefits After She Went Missing

A California man has pleaded guilty to hatching a real-estate Ponzi scheme, transferring a property acquired in the scheme to two “trust” accounts and cherry-picking his 82-year-old mother’s Social Security benefits after she went missing in January 2009. William Warren Baker, 59, of Laguna Nigel, now faces up to 10 years in state prison, prosecutors…

May 21, 2011
URGENT >> BULLETIN >> MOVING: James Fayed, E-Bullion Operator And Emerging Figure In AdSurfDaily Ponzi Case, Found Guilty In California Murder-For-Hire Plot That Led To Brutal Stabbing Death Of His Estranged Wife

URGENT >> BULLETIN >> MOVING: (UPDATED 10:37 P.M. EDT (U.S.A.) James Fayed has been found guilty of first-degree murder and conspiracy in the death of his wife, Pamela Fayed. Fayed, 48, now potentially faces the death penalty. The penalty phase of the case is scheduled to get under way tomorrow at 10:30 a.m. (PDT). A…

May 19, 2011
BULLETIN: Feds Make Criminal Bust In Alleged Forex Fraud; Nicholas Cox Of Integra Capital Management LLC Arrested In North Carolina; Allegations In Companion Civil Case Destroy Myth That Companies That Issue 1099s Could Not Possibly Be Operating Scams

A North Carolina man sued by the CFTC last year in an alleged $3 million Forex and commodities Ponzi scheme now has been arrested by federal agents on criminal charges. The allegations in the case destroy a myth advanced by financial hucksters and shills that a company that issues 1099 tax forms could not possibly…

May 19, 2011
KABOOM! CFTC/FTC Cases Against American Precious Metals LLC Were Part Of Broader Effort By New Task Force Operating In South Florida; Feds, State Throw Down Gauntlet Against Scammers

Kaboom! It turns out that the cases announced this week against American Precious Metals LLC (APM) by the CFTC and FTC were part of a geographically localized law-enforcement initiative that sprouted from “Operation Broken Trust,” a major national initiative undertaken last year by the U.S. Department of Justice and partner agencies as part of the…

May 19, 2011
UPDATE: Renee Marie Brown, Sued By SEC Last Year In Mysterious ‘Fund X’ Scam, Now Faces Criminal Charges Of Securities Fraud, Wire Fraud And Money Laundering

Renee Marie Brown, the Minnesota woman accused by the SEC last year of orchestrating a bizarre fraud known as “Fund X,” has been indicted on criminal charges of securities fraud, wire fraud and money laundering. Brown, 47, of Golden Valley, presided over a company known as Investors Income Fund X LLC, which the SEC described…

May 18, 2011
UPDATE: Michael S. Goldberg, Ponzi Schemer Who Falsely Traded On Name Of JPMorgan Chase To Dupe Investors, Sentenced To 10 Years In Federal Prison; Caper Included Domain-Name Fraud To Give Investors False Sense Of Security

Michael S. Goldberg, the Connecticut man who lured investors into bogus deals in part by creating websites that traded on the name of JPMorgan Chase Bank and other companies, has been sentenced to 10 years in federal prison. Goldberg, 40, stole more than $30 million from investors over a period of 12 years in a…

May 18, 2011
UPDATE: Thanh-Viet ‘Jeremy’ Cao’s 30-Year Ponzi Sentence One Of Longest In Southern California History; Feds Say He Told Story About A ‘Chopped Up’ Infant And Threatened Victims With ‘Extreme Violence’

Thanh-Viet “Jeremy” Cao, the California Ponzi schemer later accused in Nevada of filing fraudulent liens for enormous sums against public officials and identified by the Anti-Defamation League as a “sovereign citizen,” once threatened to torture and kill his business partner and the partner’s wife and family, federal prosecutors said. To keep victims in a state…

May 18, 2011
BREAKING NEWS: FLORIDA — AGAIN: CFTC Says Sammy J. Goldman, Harry Robert Tanner Jr. And Their Firm Ran $23 Million ‘Precious Metals’ Scam; Case Is Third Such Action In 7 Weeks

BULLETIN: In the third such action in the United States since March 30, the CFTC has gone to federal court in Florida to block what it described as a “precious metals” scam that incorporated fictitious trading. Charged with fraud in the case were Sammy J. Goldman of Delray Beach, Fla., and Harry Robert Tanner Jr.…

May 17, 2011