Tag: Allen E. Weintraub

INCREDIBLE! SEC Says Recidivist Huckster And Felon Allen E. Weintraub Is Scamming Again — This Time With Purported Facebook Shares; Court Grants Asset Freeze And Agency Publishes Phone Number To Take Complaints

BULLETIN: The SEC is tackling another bizarre securities-fraud case in which the alleged elements read like fiction. In May 2011, the agency charged Allen E. Weintraub of Aventura, Fla., in a bogus “tender offer” caper in which he fraudulently claimed to have backers to purchase (for purported billions of dollars) Eastman Kodak Co. and AMR…

Apr 25, 2012
FLORIDA — AGAIN: Parolee, Larcenist And Recidivist Huckster Charged In New Fraud Caper; Allen E. Weintraub Made Bogus Takeover Bids For Kodak And AMR — And Caused AMR’s Trading Volume To Mushroom Sixfold, SEC Says

Is it the oddest fraud story coming out of Florida to date? A man who emailed Eastman Kodak and AMR in March with offers to purchase the famous companies for billions of dollars had declared bankruptcy in 2007, was on probation for grand theft when the offers were made and extended the offers through a…

May 5, 2011

INCREDIBLE! SEC Says Recidivist Huckster And Felon Allen E. Weintraub Is Scamming Again — This Time With Purported Facebook Shares; Court Grants Asset Freeze And Agency Publishes Phone Number To Take Complaints