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BULLETIN: Data Network Affiliates’ ‘Expert’ Was Convicted Felon Charged In Racketeering Case; New Flap Involving Anthony Sasso Emerging In Florida
BULLETIN: A man described as the data expert for an online MLM program that purported to pay participants for recording license-plate numbers to help the AMBER Alert program recover abducted children is a convicted felon who was arrested in a racketeering case brought by the Broward Sheriff’s Office as part of a sting operation in…
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‘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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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